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Land mines have been getting cleared in former war zones an arm and a leg at a time, mostly by children. Also by livestock, too precious and costly to replace. Trump should rot in hell for expanding the use of land mines.
And you didn't pay mind to the part that CNN deliberately left out. That is those landmines deactivate after 30 days and can no longer cause any harm.
Rolled by the crooked MSM again.
First you claimed CNN left out the part that the mines would still be used in Korea, and it turned out it was in fact mentioned in the article, and now you claim they didn't mention the 30 deactivation issue, which is also mentioned in the article.
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The new Department of Defense landmine policy will permit the operational use of landmines only if they have a 30-day self-destruction or self-deactivation feature, a design feature seen as helping to prevent civilian casualties.
Land mines have been getting cleared in former war zones an arm and a leg at a time, mostly by children. Also by livestock, too precious and costly to replace. Trump should rot in hell for expanding the use of land mines.
Drones are better. You can target 1 person and not murder innocents. ... oh wait
The Ottawa Treaty, which US has not signed, permits Claymore mines when they are used in command detonation mode, and bans them when used with tripwires.
As for the DMZ between the Koreas, there are hundreds of thousands mines still in the ground.
Sheesh.. there are mines everywhere. On land and at sea as well. And no treaty is worth the paper its written on to stop their use.
The fact that they are indiscriminate and brutal is what makes them favored with terrorists. They use them on combat troops and civilians with equal enthusiasm.
I do believe everything mine wise that the US uses has a command detonation option but tripwires are an option to. Like I said earlier they are used in the greatest percentage as perimeter defense tools.
Even hand grenades can be rigged with tripwire. The M 148 firing device comes in a tin with a spool of tripwire. It can be used to set off anything that goes boom.
I guarantee you that even on perimeter defenses not every AP device is set up on strictly command detonation. Treaty or no treaty.
Mines are a fact of life on the battlefield. There are still hundreds of types of mines everywhere still in place going back as far as at least the Civil War I would bet. The South Pacific has got to be littered with them on land and in the water.
The sea mines are big boomers too. Every single region that has had any type of insurgency or terrorist activity is strewn with them. Hell, I was out Chukar hunting one day in an area the local NG uses for drill and popped a smoke grenade on a tripwire that was left in a waddy.
Sheesh.. there are mines everywhere. On land and at sea as well. And no treaty is worth the paper its written on to stop their use.
The fact that they are indiscriminate and brutal is what makes them favored with terrorists. They use them on combat troops and civilians with equal enthusiasm.
I do believe everything mine wise that the US uses has a command detonation option but tripwires are an option to. Like I said earlier they are used in the greatest percentage as perimeter defense tools.
Perimeter defense is one thing, but the initiative, which was pushed by Princess Diane and many others, stemmed from the several million mines left behind in places like Cambodia where people are still being killed and maimed after all these years. US didn't sign it, and neither did Russia, China or Iran, but many other nations did, and that alone reduces the problem.
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