Should the U.S. sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions?
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« on: June 28, 2015, 10:26:44 PM »
map is a bit out of date, but the important thing is Murica still hasn't signed it.



And my answer: yes.
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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2015, 10:29:31 PM »
That's too much to ask for a Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Besides, it doesn't benefit corporations, so it probably needs a 2/3rds vote in the Senate.
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2015, 03:40:00 AM »
Yes (normal).
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2015, 11:31:35 AM »
Quote from: Small L on June 30, 2015, 09:04:38 AM
What would be the point? We'd just disobey it.
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2015, 06:28:51 PM »
No.
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2015, 09:18:23 PM »
Aye, also dismantle inventories of anti-personnel mines and unilaterally dismantle nearly the entire nuclear arms stockpile - with the remainder retained until other countries can be swayed into completing abolition all together at the same time?
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2015, 09:34:26 PM »
Heck yes.
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2015, 10:01:03 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2015, 11:45:27 PM »
Indeed, just like every country on the list if/when they found out they need them to not lose a war.
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« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2015, 06:20:43 AM »
Quote from: dead0man on June 30, 2015, 11:45:27 PM
Indeed, just like every country on the list if/when they found out they need them to not lose a war.

That's not the point. It's to reduce stockpiles, end financing of their development etc. The UK has been involved in a handful of wars without needing them. Do you defend every weapon that does a better job killing civilians than soldiers?
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« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2015, 09:59:17 AM »
I'd support a law against using them aside from research and training, but the possibility of technological advancements to avoid noncombatant deaths would make me hesitate on a treaty.  It is not as though regular munitions aren't killers, and if the danger of delayed explosion is removed, I'm not clear on why cluster munitions would be worse.
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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2015, 11:00:58 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2015, 01:40:15 PM »
Quote from: CrabCake on July 01, 2015, 06:20:43 AM
That's not the point. It's to reduce stockpiles, end financing of their development etc. The UK has been involved in a handful of wars without needing them. Do you defend every weapon that does a better job killing civilians than soldiers?

How many of those were against a peer opponent?
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