Third world game of catch

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

No thte fault of the Americans/British/whoever for placing them where they dont need to be placed and then not taking them out?

Funny gow you immediately blame the US or British by name, when its been prodominately other peoples who have been fighting there. And my comment about the land mines was more a comparison to the idea of playing "hot potato" with a grenade than the fact that there are actually land mines there.

These "kids" weren't that young. They were definitely old enough to be able recohnize what a grenade looks like, especially in the war-torn area that they grew up in. They thought it would be fun to thumb their nose in the face of danger, and danger thumbed them right back. Its like blaming a motorist for hitting a kid who knowingly played in traffic.

As for the cluster bombs, I would feel much more for those kids, because those bombs are not widely known by sight to be dangerous weapons. The difference in in the people in question actually knowing what they were doing.

Jesus, I guess this was the wrong time for a little black humor.