Well yes, lets just say it makes for less of a potential for burnt children photo ops, to feed the anti-war movement.

That picture of the running child all burned up was one of the most powerful pictures to come out of the Vietnam war.

True, but technically after WWII and Korea, even Napalm used in ordnance wasn't the same ingredients:  powdered aluminum soap of naphthalene with palmitate,  also known as napthenic and palmitic acids. Modern day napalm uses no Napalm (naphthalene or palmitate) -- instead using a mixture of polystyrene, gasoline and benzene. After the Korean War a safer but equally effective napalm compound was developed. This new formulation is known as "napalm-B", super-napalm, or NP2, and it uses no napalm. Instead, polystyrene and benzene are used as a solvent to solidify the gasoline.

Chadwbaker also found this on your link - "The M9A1-7 and other flamethrowers have been replaced by the M202A1 Incendiary Rocket launcher" (No particular date given). So it appears the flame thrower is now regulated to the history books. Thermobaric weapons are more effective in killing enemies in caves.

Yes absolutely, but on a brighter note I saw a follow up story (back in the late 80's or early 90's)on that girl, she was living in the US and had seemed to be doing well from what I can remember. She was in her late twenty's when I saw the story and she looked beautiful. It doesn't make up for her pain, but it's a start.

Thank you for delving into internet land to find this out, I appreciate the effort.

I wonder how she got here, One of my major bones to pick with the U.S. government was how we were treated on returning from Vietnam and how the so called "boat people" we treated when they came to America.

Frankly, from my liberal stance, I see nothing wrong with Gitmo that some reform measures wouldn't correct. After all, a brig is a brig no matter where it's located. In the heat of Abu Graib there were cries to tear it down; it is my understanding it still stands.

Would you care to elucidate on the reform measures? They are already treated 100 times better than any American prisoner in American Prisons.

Terrorist's have no rights under the Geneva convention, only enemies caught wearing the uniform of the country you are at war has rights.

Yes 100 times is an exaggeration, but they were treated much better than returning vets were and that's a fact.

Only if wearing a uniform (that is why some are shot as spies). 

And I dont think Saudi Arabia has annexed Iraq or Afghanistan yet (or for that matter that Britian, Australia, Canada, or Yemen has either).

Oh and about the leg.  It should be mentioned that their are people in this country that need artificial legs and cant get them due to our wonderful for profit medical system.  But the suspected terrorists get them.  yey.

Some of us did not have family support and were left to our own devices.