Ban this bomb from our arsenal

NO PERSON of reason, no government of moderate temper, would want to countenance using any weapon that increases the possibility of indiscriminate death. The loss of innocents — of women and children especially — would fly in the face of how a civilised person or administration ought to behave, surely. There are many weapons in the arsenal that are specific to the purpose of killing the enemy. Cluster bombs are not one of them.

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