Cluster Bomb ban

[LakeAriel]

111 countries have signed a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/30/cluster.treaty/index.html



Some of the biggest makers and users of cluster bombs cited by human rights groups -- such the United States, Russia, China and Israel -- were not involved in the talks and did not sign the accord.

How sad is this? What have we become? Torture and cluster bombs?

 

[Golf4food]

There are different types of cluster bombs, some were banned, some were not. The main impetus behind this bill was to limit the number of cheaply put together cluster bombs that scatter what are more or less land mines and have caused problems where the individual "baby bombs" haven't exploded when first dropped and are later stepped on by innocent people from nearby villages, etc. They are important weapons when used properly and for the most part the US, etc. don't go around willy-nilly dropping cluster bombs the way a rag tag militia in rural Africa might if they got their hands onto one.