Point in the post to which you responded so patly:
Edit: yours...
On the other hand, cluster bombs are for military targets and they are effective. War is hell!
and my reply:
Cluster bombs, however, are not a discriminate form of weapon: if they're being used on the outskirts of a town, whether against a(transient) military presence or not, what you are effectively doing is laying a large unmarked minefield in which no one knows exactly where the mines are.
The best of them have a ~5% non-explode rate - meaning that the best of these bombs will leave 15-25 small, dangerous mines.
They can and do kill innocents - often small children, who see brightly-coloured objects and investigate - for many years afterwards. Have you not read any of the testimony from Laos, or Cambodia, or Afghanistan, or Kosovo...?
This in answer to your comment about them being used against military targets... no pulpit here. Do you deny the above? I never said they weren't effective, they're hideously so... for years afterwards and against non-combatants in particular.
And I suggest you also re-read your final two sentences, as they stand, and see if there's any reverence for war shown - or at least, that anyone else is ever going to see. |
