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July 20, 2023, 12:06AM

No moral high ground

EDITOR: I agree with your July 12 editorial’s premise that the United States should be a signatory to the Convention on Cluster Munitions signed by 123 other countries (“Cluster bombs are a step too far”). This treaty outlaws the production, possession and use of these indiscriminate killers. But to think that the U.S. is a principled player in the use of weapons of war is to ignore history.

The United States relinquished the moral high ground in warfare with the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo, followed by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The extensive use of…