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We haven't signed the anti-landmine treaty for a reason as well.
They work in warfare and serve a purpose which can't be easily replaced.
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Poison gas works really well too, as do biological and chemical weapons.
After the horror of WWI, the international community chose to outlaw these weapons because of their terrible and disturbing effects. The ONLY two things that stop people from using them are the international consensus, and a common, shared sense of humanity.
The kind of rationale that states the pragmatic usage of such weapons during war, erodes each of those stops. It wont be long before some other country uses the US' refusal to 'do the right thing' as a valid reason for them to act likewise.
I think it's ironic that such weapons have been used in a war that was sold to the aggressors public as a righteous war against an evil dictator who used banned weaponry against his own enemies.
Now, Ustwo, you state that there should be limits. Where and how exactly should those limits be set?