Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam Warwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkThe invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam Warwww.telegraph.co.ukLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square10fedilink
minus-squareSinningStromgald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前Haven’t read the article but I’m going to guess…land mines?
minus-squareSylver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 年前“Bombies”: the smaller explosive ordinance involved in cluster bombing with up to a 30% dud rate. We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight.
minus-squarenul9o9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 年前 We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight ಠ_ಠ
minus-squareMidnight1938@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 年前Kissinger im guessing?
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 年前Correct. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.
minus-squarechaogomu@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·1 年前The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.
minus-squareBurn_The_Right@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
Haven’t read the article but I’m going to guess…land mines?
“Bombies”: the smaller explosive ordinance involved in cluster bombing with up to a 30% dud rate.
We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight.
ಠ_ಠ
And Cambodia.
Kissinger im guessing?
Correct.
You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.
The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets.
Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.
No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.