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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think you're referring to this:
- The IDF said that the Beirut airport constitutes a transportation and shipping station of arms for Hizbullah.
You could make the same claim about most roads and bridges in Lebanon, or about the power and water and sewage utilities. And yet, bombing any of those to deny their use to Hezbollah seems much more likely to kill and affect civilians. The IDF does not claim that it was interdicting arms supplies, which it could do by blockading the airport instead of bombing it.
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How do you blockade an airport?
Serious question -- I can see how you blockade a port but blockading an airport without troops nearby seems impossible -- unless you start shooting down planes.
