The heaviest losses.

Yesterday, in "Uvda", Ilana Dayan's show, they showed actual fighting against the Hezbollah in South Lebanon. The TV crew joined a platoon whose mission was to destroy a bunch of terrorists hiding in a deserted house. I'm not a big expert in field combat, but even I know that before you engage the enemy, you have to weaken its positions. Artillery, hand grenades, portable missiles, bombing from the air, anything goes. Now this house looks like it's just been built, not a scratch, and our soldiers simply walk in there as if it were a Sunday morning stroll. Sure enough, they get hit at close range, and have to double back to evacuate their wounded. Is there anything different about this war than all the rest? Why the kid gloves treatment? It's not that "purity of arms" bullshit, is it?

( update: more from Rafi Ginat, in Hebrew )

Good thing I have A/C on.

( suffocation '06 )