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Yes, the US still refuses to stop stockpiling the pretty, brightly-colored death toys colloquially known as cluster munitions. But isn’t it nice to know that at least some of our NATO allies are smarter than that?
From an observer in Oslo of the cluster munitions treaty signing this week: “We have heard a great deal about child soldiers, but what we are witnessing here is a children’s peace. In the Oslo City Hall just one block from the Nobel Peace Center, I cannot help but wonder if it is time for children to be awarded the Peace Prize.”
Barring that, maybe kids can at least be awarded the right to play without danger on a former battlefield gone to grass.
