"I said its use was reckless."
No Keith - it was deliberate and eye-witnesses who say it being used (both in Falujah by the Americans (by a US soldier) and by the Israelis in Gaza described it as deliberate).
Whatever you and your pratt gun-nut of a soulmate claim, the US admitted it was a weapon publicly - in the case of Gaza it was used on a hospital, the excuse offered was that Hamas were there.
As I said, go and look it up and see the photographs of the effects on childrens' faces.   
"I said it shamed the IDF that it failed to stop it."
They didn't - they deliberately facilitated it.
"You disappoint me profoundly, Jim,"
Then we have something we can agree on - sadly.
As far as I am concerned, the deliberate removel of groups, cultures, people - whatever, who happen to stand in the way of national aspiration and economic and political interests is the same no matter what scale it is carried out on.
I grew up batered and appalled by images of the holocaust - my father felt compelled to go and fight in Spain because of what was happening in pre-war Germany, his family took part in the anti-Mosely protests, my grandmother was jailed for her part in it.
I am both saddened and sickened that the victimes of those atrocities should become the perpetrators of similar ones - as I said, many of my Jewish acquaintences and friends feel the same as I do - do they also disppoint you?
Jim Carroll