Hexus

CNN of all places, this is just something the liberal media loves!

Ew...

Miss America eat your heart out!

-Hexus-

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Jonny

I really do have a soft spot for these victims. Its fucking sad and it hurts to hear about their loses.. But do we really need a beauty pagent to put them all on display?

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Ninibi

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Seems like they're doing it for all the right reasons.

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damocles

Lets hide them in a closet so we can forget that this kind of thing happens. That way we can all feel better about ourselves when we do nothing to stop it from continuing. Much better to worry about our own distress when we see something like this than to do anything that might help the real victims. Social conscience FTL!

Senelin

We should be blaming the makers of landmines for this atrocity. If they made better landmines it would have solved the whole problem.

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Sakua

A maimed enemy consumes more resources than a dead one. Working as intended!

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damocles

Very much true. The problem is that most land mines are not recovered after they have served their purpose. A lot of the new mines can be set to self destruct after a period of time or be destroyed remotely. They should cut down on civilian casualties such as occur in Vietnam, Afganistan and all over Africa. Unfortunately the old style mines are cheap and plentiful and too many have been placed already and no one knows their location.

When I was a child i lived on Guam (a small island in the Pacific ocean) and unexploded ordinance from WWII was left everywhere. I remember two instances when my school was evacuated because of this. Once some kids were playing kickball with a phosphorous grenade they had found and another time utility workers found a 500 pound bomb under the playground while they were fixing a ruptured pipe.

War may be a useful political tool but cleaning up the mess afterwards is expensive and difficult. There will probably be unintende casualties for 100 years or more.

Illuminator

Reminds me why I like keeping our battlefronts on foreign shores.

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Sakua

I'm fully aware. My post was a tongue-in-cheek reply to the previous poster who implied that if the land mines were made properly the disfigured women that are the subject of this thread would not have survived. Maybe that implication was unintended. Either way, I have no lack of sympathy for those living under these conditions.

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damocles

Good policy but we may not be able to continue it if we continue to elect weak leaders. It seems a lot of people think that if the U.S. withdraws from the rest of the world everyone else will leave us alone. In reality the effect would be like throwing blood in the ocean before you go swimming.

The mindset that most U.S. citizens appear to have today is that the military is evil and instead of defending ourselves we should be apologizing and trying to placate those who would destroy us. They're worried that the rest of the world might hate us. Newsflash! As the most successful nation on the planet we make enemies just by existing.

I personally don't care if the rest of the world loves us or hates us as long as they fear us enough to keep the peace. The Democrats are doing their best to see that no one fears us. It may not be too long before we're fighting on U.S. soil.