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Posted by: ETproductions 11 months, 1 week ago
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ETproductions11 months, 1 week ago
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Got to agree with you memestryker. As much as I deplore such mayhem, the great powers forswearing it would not make it go away. That would just rob us of a defense against rouge states that decided to ignore the ban.
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One of the horrors of modern warfare is that we can't unrign the bell. Unilaterally destroying one country's capability doesn't evaporate that military technology from the knowledge base. It's rather like gun laws. In a world with hundreds of millions of available weapons, passing a law against owning one only ensures that the criminal element will have them, but decent people won't/-
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gamahuche11 months, 1 week ago
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I seldom disagree with you ET but the whole point of this exercise is to create a treaty that everybody will sign on to.
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Cluster bombs are marginal weapons in the exercise of power but major ones in the aspect of terrorising and devastating the mist vulnerable members of society who are far removed from the seats of power of those nations.
Apart from making vast swathes of our precious planet unusable they guarantee a fresh flow of individual enmity and hatred against whichever country has been responsible for dropping these murderous devices.
You only have to think of the ONE picture of the young Vietnamese girl running down the road after being struck by napalm to realise what a no-brainer it is in the hearts-and-minds area of politics to employ devices which will guarantee the on-going deaths of civilians for generations. -
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dissent11 months, 1 week ago
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"That would just rob us of a defense against rouge states that decided to ignore the ban."
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this "defense" against "rogue" states blows up kids who think they're toys.
.... yeah, great "defense" :|
your argument "rings the same bell" as the pro-torture crowd. it seems there's no end to just how far pandora's box can be opened and then for us to say "oh well, it was open anyway"
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