April 5, 2004

The US Army Just Can't Catch A Break in Europe

Today Nature informs us that the US army may have killed Italian trees: Deadly fungus hitched trans-Atlantic lift with American troops.

Deadly fungus hitched trans-Atlantic lift with American troops.

The US Army may have unwittingly killed hundreds of pine trees in an Italian hunting estate. Genetic analysis suggests that the trees were infected with an American fungus, imported by US troops during the Second World War.

Mussolini and Hitler and Fascism then, and afterwards we kill their trees. I'm looking for a lawsuit coming out of Italy to have the US Army pay for these trees. Makes one wonder why we hang around.

Posted by Vanderleun at April 5, 2004 5:09 PM | TrackBack
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