The IDF would do well to check out this article from the London Times of July 18.
Yes - force the Hezbollah to listen to Barry Manilow for hours on end. That will show em! In Edmund Blackadder's words - that would be "a fate worse than a fate worse than death!"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2274211.html
Up to a hundred hooligans had been gathering in the streets of the town and the council was concerned that their roaring engines and loud car stereos were giving its citizens sleepless nights and damaging trade for local restaurants. The council responded by erecting loudspeakers in the worst-affected streets. Bill Saravinovski, deputy mayor of Rockdale, said: “Barry’s our secret weapon. He does seem to be working.” A CUNNING scheme to prevent groups of boy racers plaguing a residential area by blasting them with Barry Manilow songs has met with a mixed response. The local council in Rockdale, near Sydney, has hailed the plan as a success.
Mr Saravinovski said that only the residents who lived closest to the loudspeakers were badly affected. But he admitted: “I am not disputing what the residents are saying. I myself can’t swallow some of Manilow’s songs, like Mandy.”
The Manilow playlist relies on the classics such as Copacabana, Mandy, I Write the Songs, Can’t Smile Without You and Looks Like We Made It. Research said to have been conducted in the United States for the FBI in the early 1990s suggested that the extended playing of Manilow’s songs could force people to flee. The FBI reportedly threatened to play Manilow at loud volume outside the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, in 1993. However, the siege ended before the plan could go ahead.
The Blacktown council in West Sydney, on the other hand, claimed success when it used Manilow’s music to prevent youths from loitering around a railway station.
The only problem with this scheme is that it could easily be defined as a war crime.
