Out-of-sight mines in poor nations would be stopped if they threatened American children

Evidence

Our planet’s 100 million leftover landmines approximate in number the combined residents of California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Except that the mines are over there, not over here. As Cyrus Vance and Herbert Okun have noted:If children walking to school or playing in a field in Manhattan, Maine, or Monterey were having their legs blown off, the U.S. government would certainly be doing everything possible to stop it. This is happening, however, in foreign places where medical care is often almost nonexistent, and physical labor is necessary for survival. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Instantiates ch11’s expendability thesis and ch8’s ‘media amplify disasters near the West.’