Disproportionate Force
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 07 2006 at 4:42 pm | Filed under: Feature Article, Hezbollah
Ball bearings. Ball bearings aimed at civilians are disproportionate force:
I’m sure, by the way, that the NY Times writer who wrote the story I linked to didn’t mean to sound as if he was condemning the victims for not getting to a bomb shelter, rather than Hezbollah for packing ball bearings into its missiles aimed at civilians. Nevertheless, that’s exactly how the article reads.
That is, the article’s spin is about how the residents of the community struck would have known to get into the bomb shelter, but the reservists waiting in a parking lot decided not to do so. The article mentions only once the fact that the missile was packed with ball bearings, and then makes no further reference to the fact that the ball bearings are intended to cause maximum human death and suffering. Had it not been for the fact that I know precisely why Hezbollah packed with ball bearings a missile intended to hit civilians, I, upon reading this article, would have passed over that detail without thought and merely tut-tutted about the victims’ own foolishness.
NY Times, bomb shelter, Hezbollah, ball bearings
