Now we plan to educate Cambodians about landmines with ads featuring Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. This is true. A thing like this cannot be made up. Goya couldn’t do it. Breughel couldn’t. Have the Cambodians been wondering where all those legless beggars came from? Have they been wondering in Afghanistan? Has the State Department been wondering? Are landmines considered kind and intelligent in American culture? America is the world’s leading exporter of landmines, and of imaginary animals as well. Welcome to the new millennium. Just a couple of years into it and we are already post-irony, beyond tears, even beyond the queasy laughter of the sick joke. :m: Peace.
A quote from the link: "The topics will be "mine risk education" and "social reintegration" for land mine accident survivors." There are no land mine "accidents".
It's not that much of a laughing matter. Nine Iraqi children were killed and seven wounded in the south of the country when unexploded ordnance they were playing with detonated, a UN spokesman said yesterday. [/quote]
