The Obama administration is considering joining the Ottawa Treaty, which bans the use of land mines. Which are of no use in the counterinsurgencies we're fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The only place they would be useful is in the ironically-named demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. But control over those mines has been transferred to South Korea. Not to mention that "technological advances have enabled the Pentagon to create explosives that function like mines but are detonated remotely, making them permissible under the treaty."
There is even enough support in the Senate for ratification. Sixty-eight senators have signed on to a letter calling on Obama to join the ban. (67 are needed for ratification.) There is no reason not to do this.
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agreed. the us military has plenty of other weapons to be used as deterrent weapons, if they are going to use that argument... (like nukes for example. kind of like the ultimate deterrent weapon)
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