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Originally Posted by greywar
What exactly is wrong with putting land mines on our border?
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What good is an exploded cow?
There is a hell of a lot of private land along our border that is used as range or for farming. Much of the federal border land is used for recreation by our citizens.
The United States is not Bosnia, and I hope to God it will never be. This is the worst idea ever.
This kerfuffle will eventually go away, but mines kill innocents forever once they are laid.
France still has deaths every year from mines that were laid 100 years ago in WWI. Whoever laid them 100 years ago drew careful maps, with every good intention to go dig them up after the war, but the maps always disappear and the mines are never dug up. They just grow more deadly with each passing year.
Bosnian mines are still killing Croatians. Our mines are still killing Vietnamese and Cambodians. German mines are still killing Poles and Czechs. Russian mines are still killing Germans. Italian mines are still killing Ethiopians. British mines are still killing Burmese. Japanese mines are still killing Chinese.
Get the point?