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I’m Not Feeling You Not Signing The Cluster-Bomb Ban

I’m not feeling you:

Around a 100 countries that aren’t us (or Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel) signed a treaty banning cluster-bombs yesterday.

Cluster-bombs get fired over a battlefield in a rocket and then the rocket drops hundreds of little bombs which explode on the enemy. Except at least 10 percent don’t explode on impact and instead just lay around for years and years.

So, you know how sometimes you’re at the beach watching your nephew or your friend’s kid or your little sister or whatever and you blink for a second and she/he’s holding like a dead fish or a condom or something and about to like toddler make-out with it?  Well imagine instead of a dead fish it’s a tiny bomb, and instead of having to wash the kid’s hands, the kid’s head explodes.

Anyway, I’m for the ban.

Ok, or we could send in our troops and let them take massive casualties.  Cluster bombs have a purpose.  Yes, war sucks.  Yes, there’s collateral damage.  I’d rather fire one of these suckers over a battlefield if it means more of our troops come home alive.

On the flip side, each one of the bombets can represent another soldier coming home in one piece.

You make an excellent point, however, I suspect we have a huge catalog of ordinance that can do they same job without the problem of blowing up an innocent person (maybe even one of our own soldiers) years later.