Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:59:07 PM
Yes the landmines are quite real ... AFGHANISTAN IS AN ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS PLACE. THE 1979 SOVIET INVASION, FACTIONAL FIGHTING IN THE EARLY 1990'S, AND THE CURRENT WAR BETWEEN THE TALEBAN AND ITS OPPOSITION HAVE LEFT AN ESTIMATED 10-MILLION MINES PLANTED NEXT TO ROADS, IN THE MOUNTAINS, IN FIELDS AND RIVERBANKS, AND EVEN INSIDE PEOPLE'S HOMES.
Land-mines are catastrophic for children, whose small bodies are particularly vulnerable to the injuries they inflict. One of the mosts heavily mined countries in the world is Afghanistan. The Soviet Union garnered infamy in Afghanistan with its terror technique of littering the countryside with small anti-personnel mines that looked like toy airplanes and were thus a deadly favorite of curious young children.
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Another appauling thing of the Clinton admin was he refused to add the United States to the list of 125 nations signing a treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines in 1997. Of cousr Inho you porbably know the ostensible Clinton excuse to balk at signing the treaty was the protection of 35,000 U.S. troops near Korea's Demilitarized Zone. The first line of defense against a massive attack from the north is a sea of anti-tank mines. But if I remember correctly the treaty banned only anti-personnel mines. Of course anti-personnel mines protect the anti-tank mines from tampering by North Korean soldiers.
This could be a lot worse than Viet Nam just depends on how the plan of war is drawn up. I believe the war department and troops will be fully aware of the mines. Dangerous variable in this offensive. I am sure Bin Laden has this figured in also as does the Taliban.
Do they have the guts to be executed you mean. As long as dictatorships rule and execute anyone who dares to invoke change or bring forth critical reasoning, evolution will never happen. Everyone knows that so when the US goes in I hope the air support burns the poppy fields as they clear a way for the ground troops.
:=) Gary Swancey
Land-mines are catastrophic for children, whose small bodies are particularly vulnerable to the injuries they inflict. One of the mosts heavily mined countries in the world is Afghanistan. The Soviet Union garnered infamy in Afghanistan with its terror technique of littering the countryside with small anti-personnel mines that looked like toy airplanes and were thus a deadly favorite of curious young children. GRRRRRRRRRRR
Another appauling thing of the Clinton admin was he refused to add the United States to the list of 125 nations signing a treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines in 1997. Of cousr Inho you porbably know the ostensible Clinton excuse to balk at signing the treaty was the protection of 35,000 U.S. troops near Korea's Demilitarized Zone. The first line of defense against a massive attack from the north is a sea of anti-tank mines. But if I remember correctly the treaty banned only anti-personnel mines. Of course anti-personnel mines protect the anti-tank mines from tampering by North Korean soldiers.
This could be a lot worse than Viet Nam just depends on how the plan of war is drawn up. I believe the war department and troops will be fully aware of the mines. Dangerous variable in this offensive. I am sure Bin Laden has this figured in also as does the Taliban.
Do they have the guts to be executed you mean. As long as dictatorships rule and execute anyone who dares to invoke change or bring forth critical reasoning, evolution will never happen. Everyone knows that so when the US goes in I hope the air support burns the poppy fields as they clear a way for the ground troops.
:=) Gary Swancey
:=) Gary Swancey
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