It's not making MSM coverage for obvious reasons. They're not supposed to be on the ground, but reports are that early into this thing, they sent in Delta boys with IDF SF to do recon on sites looking for hostages. They walked into an ambush and got cut to pieces.

Both Israel and the US prefer to operate surgically. Killing civilians is a PR nightmare, so if you can pull off high-risk, high-reward missions, we try that. We've trained specifically to be the best at the world doing that for the last 20 years. It's one of the few things we're still good at.

Now, look at the headlines. Israel's just carpet bombing the area. Why would they do that knowing that Hamas surrounds themselves with women and children specifically for the PR when they get killed? They're doing it because they can't get the targets any other way. It's too dangerous to send special forces. Otherwise, news coverage would look like the post-Bin Laden raid coverage hailing the operators as heroes for rescuing the hostages. Hamas is far better trained and equipped than we gave them credit for and now IDF is trying like hell to figure out what to do about it.