A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.[...]
According to [Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies] Campbell, the deployment of the weapons was not announced to Parliament.
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Officials told the Guardian the new weapon was classified as a soldier launched "light anti-structure munition" and that the bombs would be more effective because "even when they hit the damage is limited to a confined area."
That's what they said about the smart bombs - they could be aimed to enter a specific window in a building. Yeah, right. And if it's true, I ask you, why then is the soldier launching the weapon dressed like this?
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. --Mark Twain
i'll never understand how anyone working on such a weapon could live with themselves...
ReplyDeleteno, i can't understand it either. and now that you've mentioned it, i'm thinking of the atomic bomb development where the government had the scientists working on it in isolation from one another so that many of them didn't know what they were working toward, having only one piece of the picture to work out. ("Of
ReplyDeletethe 150,000 people working on the Manhattan project, only a dozen had
complete knowledge of what was going on." http://www.duke.edu/web/hst20s-04/Baer.txt
still, even if that were the case in the development of this particular weapon, there are those who do know what they're aiming for (and certainly if they are scientists working for the government, they should know that anything they develop will be looked at for its value in pressing war). how do their minds work, so that they can justify creating something that will cause such horrendous suffering? do they see themselves as less inhumane and brutal than the worst savage if they are providing the instrument of savagery?
and how about the soldiers who wield the weapons?
frankly, i simply can't understand a great deal of human behavior. what makes people able to do things to other people that they would never want done to themselves? why would you want to cause what you wouldn't want to experience?
and i guess this is what makes it difficult to live in peace. we humans don't seem to be capable of understanding each other.
thanks for reading, and thanks for your comments.
many blessings,
m