San Francisco Chronicle
This country hasn't used land mines in nearly 20 years. It no longer makes the indiscriminate killers nor provides them to allies.
Why then is President Obama - off to Oslo this week to collect a Nobel Peace Prize - refusing to sign an international treaty to ban the shrapnel-spewing buried bombs?
His refusal is a shameful lapse for a leader committed to human rights and weapons controls. The devices, which maim and kill for years after a conflict ends, caused more than 5,000 casualties last year in the world's poorest places such as Cambodia, Angola and Central America.
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