Throughout the "liberal" media, the calls that Israel should be condemned for "disproportionate response" and "crimes against humanity" have been growing to a deafening roar. Clearly, there is consensus that Israel is going all-out to massacre civilians in Lebanon, and does not discriminate between military and civilian targets.
Given that in 14 days of fighting, about 400 deaths have occurred in Lebanon (although there's no clear distinction between Hizbollah fighters and Lebanese citizens), we can reach a very important conclusion - Israel should demand full refunds for all the military hardware it has bought and uses in this conflict, since it is clearly not performing up to specifications.
To take a simple example. The F15 fighter which is the backbone of Israel's air attack, is designed to carry the following armaments :
20mm 6 barrel cannon with 980 rounds of ammunition, capable of penetrating several inches of hardened steel
up to 12 air-to-ground missiles with sophisticated electronics to ensure accurate targeting
up to 15 tons of "smart" bombs.
Using one of these aircraft in a densely populated area, I think it is reasonable to estimate that it should have a kill-ratio of between 500 and 1000 people for one full load of munitions. Anything less than that would be a very poor return on investment. Since Israel freely admits to having flown over a thousand sorties over Lebanon, we should expect that about 50,000 and 100,000 people should have been killed by airstrikes alone. Add to this the tens of thousands of artillery and mortar rounds that the rest of the world say have been fired directly into densely populated areas, and any reasonable audit should expect that anything less that a quarter of a million casualties amongst the Lebanese is a sign of very poor planning by the Israeli command.
Clearly the equipment we have bought, that for all this effort has only managed to kill 400 people, is defective, does not meet it's design standards, and we should demand a refund!
