Clinton’s Cruel Decision On Land Mines Risks Too Many Lives: a recent editorial in the Seattle Post-intelligencer reminds us of U.S.’s shameful 1997 decision not to be signatory of treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines. “The global banning of a weapons system is rare but not unprecedented. Exploding bullets

were banned in 1863, fragmenting (so-called “dum-dum”) bullets in 1899, poison gas in

1925 and blinding lasers in 1995.”