I am neither a soldier nor a doctor, but — as the father of a soldier injured in Afghanistan — I HAVE spent some time at Walter Reed and Brooke Army Medical Center. During that time, I have met a fairly good number of injured/wounded troops. I have gotten to the point where in some cases — without any conversation — I can look at a wounded soldier and be able to tell by the pattern and nature of the scars/wounds that he was the victim of an EFP attack. If you can imagine someone standing beneath a large bucket of molten steel from which drops and dollops of liquid metal are dripping, you can probably get an idea of the kind of scars that EFPs leave — dark red circles on the body where the blobs of molten copper from the EFP projectile enters — and often stays inside — the body. When I saw these wounds — and realized that these were the work of the Iranians — and realized that our Government was doing precisely NOTHING to Iran for this, it did NOT fill me with confidence in our leaders — civilian or military. It DID make me angry that tho plants where these devices are being produced are still standing.
