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2006-08-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

WaPo Says Hizbollah is "Best Guerilla Force in the World"

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-14 02:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ay what point after Viet Nam was napalm given up as a weapon?

Posted by JohnQC 2006-08-14 08:38|| 2006-08-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 It's still in use. But now we have the more "environmentally friendly" firebomb made from jellied kerosine instead of gasoline. And it just happens to be harder to put out.

Posted by ed 2006-08-14 09:06|| 2006-08-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Aw C'mon WaPo. Give yourself some credit. You're not bad guerillas yourselves.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-14 09:12|| 2006-08-14 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Napalm is any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline. Napalm is actually the thickener in such liquids, which when mixed with gasoline makes a sticky incendiary gel. It was developed by the U.S. in World War II by a team of Harvard chemists led by Louis Fieser, and the name comes from the use of the original chemicals, coprecipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic and palmitic acids, which were added to the flammable substance gasoline to cause it to gel. [1]

Napalm has been used recently in wartime by or against: Iran (198088), Israel (1967, 1982), Nigeria (1969), Brazil (1972), Egypt (1973), Cyprus (1974), Argentina (1982), Iraq (198088, 1991,2003-2006), Serbia (1994), Turkey (1974, 1997), Angola, United States.

In some cases, Napalm does not cause physical pain because it incapacitates and kills its victims very quickly. Those who do survive suffer 3rd degree burns, damaging the vascular dermis, which does not have pain receptors. However, victims who suffer 2nd degree burns from splashed napalm will be in significant amounts of pain. [6]

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-14 09:14|| 2006-08-14 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 "environmentally friendly" firebomb made from jellied kerosine
Yes, and it is amusing to watch the contortions that the DoD public affairs types go through to not talk about it, when questioned.

Incidentally, One of the nastier aspects of this type of weapon is that when larege cannisters are dropped from an aircraft, on impact it produces a thermal pulse that will ignite almost anything flammable up to ~50m from the incindiary. Near misses are as bad as direct hits.

IIRC, I saw a film of a tank set aligt from a near miss, and none of the stuff actualy came into contact with the tank.

Posted by N guard 2006-08-14 09:27|| 2006-08-14 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I see no mention on how many of these supermen are now worm food.

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-14 11:47|| 2006-08-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Hezballzh must have had a bunch of these jihadists killed. WaPO is not the best source for such a critique. It is a little early for such hyperbole.

I'm not an expert in these matters but it seems to me that Olhmert was lame in prosecuting the war. I wonder if he will survive this little war. He did not follow through on his military plan.

Resolution 1559 was never implemented or enforced. The U.S. should have laid it to Syria and Iran about shipping arms into Lebanon. Russia also brokered arms deals that put anti tank weapons in the hands of Hezballah. The U.S. was too busy trying to look like peace brokers in the mideast. "Jimmy Carterism" just does not work as a viable foreign policy with the islamos. U.N. resolution 1701 is not going to bring peace in the mideast. It is not difficult to look like a reasonable fighting force in view of the incompetence going on in the West.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-08-14 12:41|| 2006-08-14 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it just me, or does the Washington Post idolize anybody who opposes the US or its allies?

Posted by RWV 2006-08-14 14:38|| 2006-08-14 14:38|| Front Page Top

#9 It's not you, RWV. The Washington Post have a bad case of BDS, the poor things.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-14 15:31|| 2006-08-14 15:31|| Front Page Top

#10 If WaPo is so ennamored with the Hezbos, they should move their HDQs to so. Lebanon.

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-14 16:14|| 2006-08-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Fourth Estate becomes Fifth Column

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-14 17:59|| 2006-08-14 17:59|| Front Page Top

#12 The rumor is that if you mix a standard kitchen dishwashing liquid with gasoline in the right proportions you have a fair approximation of napalm for use in Molotov cocktails.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-08-14 20:25|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-08-14 20:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, yeah, just remembered, you can also, purportedly, mix in styrofoam (dissolved in gasoline) for even better results...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-08-14 20:26|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-08-14 20:26|| Front Page Top

#14 We just used orange Jell-O and gasoline when we were kids. Worked pretty well on our slagged out toys.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-14 21:03|| 2006-08-14 21:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Try moth-balls. No not those moth-balls, the ones used to keep moths off wool

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-08-14 21:09|| 2006-08-14 21:09|| Front Page Top

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