I wrote this piece as a guest blogger on Jules Crittendens site a couple of years ago....I still stand by what I wrote. We are not fighting an enemy that plays by the rules so why should we.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death…let’s bring back landmines….
Wednesday 15 July 2009
A repost.....
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All well and good. But can someone please tell me how to make electricity at home, cheap and simple?
The way it was briefed to me back in the 90's: the anti-landmine treaties banned the old, "dumb" mines (toepoppers, bouncing Betties, etc); the only mines allowed are command-det (claymores, etc) or the new, smart mines that have timer-rundown self-destruct times. If I recall these rules were in effect before Princess Di's death - I remember them taking the toepoppers & bouncing Betties out of our UBL (Unit Basic Load), and JAG (the military legal beagles) telling us all those boobytraps we learned how to make in the SF "Q" course would no longer be taught - right away we asked like what, we had to erase them from our memory banks? Yah figure the odds on that. The UN Mine Action Committee in Bosnia told me the landmine issue was more PR than action for Princess Di (this was before her death of course). The US claimed an exception to policy in order to maintain minefields on the DMZ betw N & S Korea. IEDs ARE landmines of course, and not always command det. I guess al Qaeda & the Taliban got an exception to policy, too. Their lawyers must be better than ours.
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