This was an incredible episode with so many good takes on a plethora of issues. I guess I just wanna say that the discussion around the IDF's hostage rescue operation was particularly well-covered. Tom's comparison to Mogadishu is very apt. Once you understand that the exfil vehicle extraction the hostage was ambushed from several buildi…
This was an incredible episode with so many good takes on a plethora of issues. I guess I just wanna say that the discussion around the IDF's hostage rescue operation was particularly well-covered. Tom's comparison to Mogadishu is very apt. Once you understand that the exfil vehicle extraction the hostage was ambushed from several buildings and that airstrikes were called in on those buildings to cover the extraction the level of civilian casualties make a lot more sense. Hamas is intentionally embedded themselves within high densities of civilians--a war crime in itself--in order to ensure disproportionate casualty counts in the aftermath of a fight. They are using their own people as martyrdom sandbags and it's terrible.
This was an incredible episode with so many good takes on a plethora of issues. I guess I just wanna say that the discussion around the IDF's hostage rescue operation was particularly well-covered. Tom's comparison to Mogadishu is very apt. Once you understand that the exfil vehicle extraction the hostage was ambushed from several buildings and that airstrikes were called in on those buildings to cover the extraction the level of civilian casualties make a lot more sense. Hamas is intentionally embedded themselves within high densities of civilians--a war crime in itself--in order to ensure disproportionate casualty counts in the aftermath of a fight. They are using their own people as martyrdom sandbags and it's terrible.
I agree Travis.