'Iron Dome' anti-rocket system is changing the face of battle by limiting Israeli casualties

Fox News / The Associated Press ^ | July 10, 2014

[2ndDivisionVet]

Israel's "Iron Dome" defense system has emerged as a game-changer in the current round of violence with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, shooting down dozens of incoming rockets and being credited with preventing numerous civilian casualties.

By shooting down more than 90 percent of its targets, the system is ensuring Israel's decisive technological edge that has helped it operate virtually unhindered in Gaza.

At the same time, it's also providing a much-needed sense of security on the home front.....

[bkopto]

But missile defence won’t work. At least that was what all the leftists were saying in the 1980s and 1990s.

[KarlInOhio]

By shooting down more than 90 percent of its targets, the system is ensuring Israel's decisive technological edge that has helped it operate virtually unhindered in Gaza.

And what would have happened if the rockets the Palis shot had hit their targets? Then you would have seen a real unhindered operation in Gaza.

[reefdiver]

A cartoonist named Tom Toles constantly made fun of Reagan. He won awards for it.
But look at who won the day

[plain talk]

Some of the leftists would say — see ... it doesn’t work ... it only destroys 90% of the missiles. :-)

[M-cubed]

I'm from the old Curtis LeMay school....Id drop fliers on the pa-lies that say...if a rocket comes from your neighborhood ...a quarter mile around it will be bombed back to the stone age before the rocket even hits Isreal!.....

once they understand that!!!...they will police themselves!....kinda the NIMBY syndrome for keeps!!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Remember the left ridiculing Ronnie Raygun?

[GeronL]

Remember the left ridiculing Ronnie Raygun?

You should ping a FReeper when you mention him/her. :p

[McGavin999]

What is needed is something that will turn the rockets back on their launchers. Then when Gaza is wiped out it will be of their own doing and have nothing to do with Israel.

[baddog 219]

The Iron Dome is great,But wait till they see Israel’s Iron Frying Pan.

[rlmorel]

This guy Toles is a scumbag of the highest order. I wrote him an email, and he actually sent a snarky reply back, about this cartoon:

This is the guy:

[Kakaze]

I'm from the old Curtis LeMay school....Id drop fliers on the pa-lies that say...if a rocket comes from your neighborhood ...a quarter mile around it will be bombed back to the stone age before the rocket even hits Isreal!.....

Damn Right!........of course the stone age was their biggest achievement.

[goldstategop]

Liberals in the 1980s derided President’s Reagan’s vision of a ABM as a fantasy.

In real life, as Israel demonstrates, practical defense against enemy rocket attacks is not a luxury; its a necessity.

[goldstategop]

No defense system will ever provide 100% protection. But its better than a condom in preventing pregnancy. ;-)

[bkopto]

Yeah, I do recall that. However, of course, all that leftist claptrap about the infeasibility about missile defense has since been flushed down the memory hole, and they’ve “moved on” to other lies, since then, global warming being the latest. The left glides from lie to lie, with ease.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

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[lulu16]

Good one! I can just still see their smarmy, smart aleck faces saying Star Wars won’t work.

I wish we had a missile shield.

[gandalftb]

The article misses the mark. The iron dome has intercepted over 800 missiles.

[GeronL]

Iron Dome could be quite the export item

South Korea should look into it

[beethovenfan]

His cartoons are stupid and he can’t draw wolrth an Obama.