What are those farmers doing in a warzone anyway?
To the Editor:
I read your article about the international treaty banning landmines and I have to say, I’m outraged. How dare they deprive our soldiers of a cheap and easy way to main civilians? Flying around dropping bombs on impoverished villagers is an expensive and inefficient way of killing people.
Landmines, on the other hand, last for decades and so, continue killing the enemy long after the war is over. That most of the victims are peasants and children is irrelevant. What are those farmers doing in a war zone anyway? Don’t they know better? As for the children, hopscotch is serious business. Mastering it takes years and there’s nothing like the possible loss of a limb to force you to focus.
This is America, not some pacifist paradise like Sweden. We have a long history of invading nations to deprive them of their freedom. It’s clear they don’t want us there and will attack us first chance they get. So naturally we need to protect ourselves with explosives. That we leave them behind to maim and kill for generations is just the price ungrateful foreigners have to pay for being liberated from subsidized housing and free health care. Our forefathers died so that others can too. Let’s keep it that way.
Signed,
A Patriot
