Courtesy of Mr. Reynolds, last
Courtesy of Mr. Reynolds, last night I read a fascinating account of Vietnamese-born Anh Duong, the woman who spearheaded the fast-track development of the cave-busting thermobaric bombs we used in Afghanistan. A bit at the end of the first section caught my eye:
“Much of the world would gasp. Greenpeace called it inhumane; a Russian geologist blamed it for deadly earthquakes; critics would dub the weapon "thermo-barbaric" - so unfathomably lethal that it should never have been created.”
The Russian geologist immediately brought to mind another story from a few days ago, headlined “Scientist blames failure of monsoon on US warplanes.” The chief scientific officer at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences in New Delhi claims that the unusually dry Indian monsoon season is being caused by the “large volumes of greenhouse gases” that were released by US warplanes in Afghanistan.
Not only is America the awakened giant… not only do we act with crass unilateralism… not only do we wield impressively scary military power… apparently we also affect the very crust of the earth and the weather itself.
I’m not sure what to make of that. Both claims are clearly bunk, yet the mere fact that people made them suggests that the powers assigned to America in some parts of the world are beginning to border on the godlike.
Good. Something for our raging desert-dwelling enemies to contemplate.
