AnarchoAnarchist

All economies are planned. The only question is who does the planning.

Do you leave that to a bunch of MBAs focused on quarterly profits, or a bureaucracy charged with looking for a state's long term interests?

The problem is airfields and airbases are stupidly large targets that can absorb a lot of damage.

Hit the fuel storage or otherwise soft targets and you can cause massive damage. But when it is 70% empty space you need a lot of 50m holes to have the effect you want.

The real win here is not material damage. It is morale. If one missile can get through, 50 can. If a couple dozen flights can be delayed, the whole airport can be shut down indefinately. If any Israelis felt it was safe to fly out of their settler colony, they are rethinking it now.

Patching a 50m hole in a taxiway only takes hours. Convincing British airways that hundreds of millions of dollars of planes are safe after this attack, and they should keep their normal routes in place, much harder.

Warning shots are dangerous, that bullet will fall and in a densely populated area God knows who it will hit. I don't blame the officer for not firing into the air.i do think that was a perfect opportunity to pull out a baton or a Taser. And I would even understand pulling his pistol to force the lynch mob to comply with his orders to back off.

I do not use the term lynch mob lightly, and find it hard to think of a more fitting description.