Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoThe 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 · 7 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareSinningStromgald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoHaven’t read the article but I’m going to guess…land mines?
minus-squareSylver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·7 months ago“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-up19·7 months ago 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-down1·7 months agoKissinger im guessing?
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·7 months agoCorrect. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.
minus-squarechaogomu@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·7 months agoThe 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-up8·7 months agoNo 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.