The United States recently took a step towards civilizing war, if war can be in any way termed civilized. Last Friday the US Defence Department made history by destroying the last chemical weapon in its military arsenal. The US Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 and it began
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The Disaffected Lib: Harper Skulks Behind Cluster Bomb Ban
In 2008, countries around the world signed on to a global ban on cluster bomb munitions. Apparently the sheer humanity of it was too much for the Prince of Darkness to bear. Now there are warnings that our prime ministerial Beelzebub is prepping legislation to circumvent the spirit and letter
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