Cluster bombs: ‘Tragic moral tarnish’

Re: “The U.S. will provide cluster bombs to Ukraine and defends the delivery of the controversial weapon” [July 7, Nation & World]:

I strongly oppose cluster munitions on humanitarian and human rights grounds.

I’m an amputee myself, having misplaced my proper arm on the age of 15. I’ve additionally visited Cambodia, the place cluster bombs had such widespread, harmful, handicapping penalties. These weapons kill and maim indiscriminately — troopers, and civilian males, girls and youngsters. They depart 1000’s of unexploded bombs scattered in cities, houses, forests, farm fields and orchards. We’ll now be chargeable for battle crimes, a tragic ethical tarnish. I protest and abhor our tax {dollars} funding cluster bombs and munitions.

As an alternative, the U.S. ought to present Ukraine with subtle concentrating on help and superior weapons to destroy Russia’s cluster bomb-launching air and floor machines. Moreover, the U.S. and all NATO nations ought to ratify the worldwide treaty banning cluster bombs.

Tom Hulscher, Seattle