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Old December 21st, 2009, 02:49 PM
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My personal breaking point, after months of jaw-dropping astonishment at Obama's betrayals, was his refusal almost alone of the world's leaders to ban child-killing landmines and cluster bombs. His state department announced this shameful policy on Thanksgiving eve, as if to hide it from public notice. Obama is continuing Bush's policy of refusing to honour an international antipersonnel landmine ban – the Ottawa treaty – signed by 158 nations.

It's so cruel and pointless. Mostly the victims are the rural poor, many of them children of the same age as the president's two daughters. They die from shock or blood loss far from any hospital; and the survivors suffer amputations and blinding.

I can't help but imagine my teenage son being blown to pieces because he's got the curiosity to pick up an enticing yellow-finned cluster bomblet. Why can't Obama imagine it for his kids? Since the official story is that the United States no longer produces or deploys these horrible weapons, why not ban the things? "National defence needs" is the answer: please.
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after months of jaw-dropping astonishment at Obama's betrayals
Why was he dumb enough to believe Obama's promises?
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