This really belongs on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. The United States has been airdropping food over Afghanistan. The food comes in a plastic-wrapped square yellow container. Guess what else comes in yellow? That’s right, unexploded cluster bombs. So now, the United States is broadcasting warnings over radio trying to teach illiterate Afghanis the difference between a yellow can-shaped cluster bomb and a yellow square-shaped food parcel with the warning to “Please, please exercise caution when approaching unidentified yellow objects in areas that have been recently bombed.”
Makes about as much sense as the Pentagon’s repeated claims that they are not at war with the Afghanistan people. Okay, fine, then why the hell are they dropping cluster bombs, which kill indiscriminately by design?
Source:
U.S. Warns Afghans of Yellow Cluster Bomblets. Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, October 29, 2001.