anotherneil
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And boastfully laughing.
I wasn't sure and I was wondering about this.
Correct.
I won't assume that the first word was a Freudian typo, and that you meant to type "then", but I am curious - was it a Freudian typo?
In the last OP paragraph I included the comment that "I don't think it's funny". I posted this thread in the "current events" section of the forum; I'm not a "current event".
Technically a loaded question; although there might be no dispute that her killing was collateral damage (and the adult casualties were intended targets), it wasn't explicitly established that they deemed her to be collateral damage.
I presume that the targeting of any child wasn't the intent, but I'm not going to dehumanize her killing with such dismissive rhetoric; you can do that if that's what you wish.
I would say that from the flow of the discussion, once they expressed that they were aware that an 8 year old girl was killed as a result of the attack, then continued to joke and laugh about the attack without expressing even the smallest amount of remorse for her killing from this attack, that they thought that it was part of what was funny to them, since they expressed no empathy at all for it. When they were briefly addressing it, all they had was this purely insensitive, sociopathic, "**it happens" attitude about it.
If they would have expressed some sort of empathy and regret for this tragedy, I would not have considered starting this thread.
They were asserting that this pager attack was the work of Mossad, and they were acknowledging that this 8 year old girl was killed by the attack.
There are 4 categories of manner of death - natural, accidental, homicide, and suicide; her death was not natural, accidental, or a suicide; it was a homicide.
When I was drafting the thread, I wanted to avoid being vague (in leaving open the possibility that the situation was accidental), so I didn't want to just title the thread starting with the word "killing...." I wanted it to be clear that it was a homicide, which (I guess you could say) grammatically calls for the use of the word "intentional" since that's what homicide means.
By "intentional", I don't mean to imply that she, herself, was specifically targeted; as I stated earlier, I don't presume that the specific targeting of any child was the intent.
If anyone, whether it's Israel's Mossad, or anyone else, wants go after their adversaries, I'd much rather they do it by "surgically" targeting their adversaries than massively broad indiscriminate destruction and killing, like Israel was in Gaza. I'll give the Mossad credit for at least trying to be surgical in their efforts to target their adversaries.
This thread isn't about that, though; it's about a couple of radio hosts, right here in the US, in the nation's capital, having such an callous disregard for the intentional killing of a little girl by laughing about the overall situation which included it, in a way that I think they'd never ever do for anyone else anywhere else in the world.
Had there been no child victim, and they were snickering, laughing, and joking around about the Mossad getting their targets the way they did, I wouldn't have been driven to post this thread, and I probably would've been grinning a little along with them, but not because I condone this overall conflict and what has happened that led up to it, going back to the mid-20th century.
Ok.
