Afghanistan’s youth have never known peace. Decades of war that began with the Soviets saw many children deployed to the front lines of vicious fighting. Many lost their lives, while others have survived with serious disabilities. Noor Ahmad, from Balkh Province’s Shulgara District, was one of them, recruited to fight at the age of 16. Yaghub Azorda reports his story for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
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to equate to the wide-area iniicsrimdnate destruction that occurred in WWII. And even when B-52s were used in the 73-74 air campaign their use was equally restricted, although damage was somewhat wider due to nature of ordinance delivery. Almost all neutral observers who surveyed post-war damage in Hanoi, Haiphong, etc., attest to this fact. Every single credible report extant confirms this. I CANNOT LET THIS CANARD PASS. You casually toss around emotionally-charged words far too casually, sir. Your choice of words is just not over-broad but totally wrong. Please calibrate your verbiage more accurately, as with the use of a single phrase you have (inadvertently I am sure) managed to smear the integrity of not just the USAF, USN and the USMC, but of America as a whole. What is especially laughable indeed savagely ironic is that such a term would be used in the face of a very public record of American Presidents ham-stringing the bombing campaign with highly restrictive ROEs to include documented instances of LBJ kneeling on the floor of the Oval Office on hands & knees with SECDEFMacNamera pouring over maps of N. Vietnam personally hand-picking individual tgts in N. Vietnam. Please be more careful in your choice of words/descriptive terms.Next, I would only ask: If Catholics in the north were not persecuted, what were all the Catholic refugees from the north doing in the south? On vacation?