@ehBeth,
Quote:Afghanistan did not attack the United States. Indeed, the 19 men charged with the crime were not Afghans.
This statement is factually incorrect. The attack originated from Afghanistan. The fact that the attack planners deliberately used perpetrators with different nationalities is legally irrelevant.
ehBeth wrote:I think Afghanistan / Afghanis are right to hold a grudge against America - or as you have suggested - to retaliate. Afghanistan was attacked by America without cause.
If any Afghanis attempt hostile action against the United States, we will kill them with dronestrikes (and probably kill their families too, as collateral damage).
Those thermobaric warheads that we use on our drones are really awesome. The "explosive" is essentially rocket fuel with a small charge at the center to ignite it and send it spraying outward. The resulting fireball is pretty brief (can't squeeze all that much rocket fuel into a bomb casing), but the temperatures inside the fireball are extremely hot -- over 4000 degrees. I forget if that is Fahrenheit or Celsius, but it hardly matters.
The result is that anyone who is engulfed by the fireball instantly receives whole-body third-degree burns. The bodies are otherwise intact, but have charred skin all over their body. The lethality of the warheads is outstanding.
