[fabsroman]

Roy,

Last I checked it wasn't so easy to track down "terrorists". We couldn't even find them in our own country and look what happened (i.e., 9/11). There are cells all over the world (e.g., Spain, England) and I don't see them catching any of these guys or stopping all of them before they can strike. However, we expect Lebanon, with its limited technology to be able to do a better job of catching these guys than the FBI. I don't think the Hezbollah walk around with jerseys saying they are members of Hezbollah.

Also, I agree with Val. There is way too much collateral damage. In your scenario, what if the Indians were a lot farther away and instead of launching an arrow they launched a nuke to kill your neighbor and blew up an entire city. Would that be an acceptable amount of collateral damage? Israel could fight this fight with small arms like the US is doing, but instead they decide to use artillery, tanks, cruise missiles, and bombs from planes. Granted, we use bombs from planes every once in a while (e.g., Zerquai), but we aren't taking out airports, roads, bridges, apartment buildings, etc.