22 July 2006 - operations manual

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2006 : 22 July 2006

“If you hurt people enough, eventually they will do what you want. This method was championed by Machiavelli and served as the basis of successful parenting strategies for centuries. Besides, it worked great for Pavlov.”
— Israeli military operations manual

“They already hate us. We can work with that.”
— Hezbollah terrorist operations manual

clue:

Re the infrastructure component of Israel’s bombing campaign in Lebanon, which is effectively psychological and anti-civilian. It didn’t work in WWII either.

give me a clue so sweet and true