Banning cluster bombs requires dismantling precision-war rhetoric first.

Evidence

But the ultimate goal should be to outlaw all cluster bombs as weapons of indiscriminate effect. To achieve such a goal, we will first have to start dismantling the whole delusory rhetorical domain of “smart wars” and “precision” warfare. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 704

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cluster bombs are landmines under a cover pseudonym. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 703; Governments weaponize feminist rhetoric to justify wars. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 589; Cheapening nuclear weapons is eroding the precondition for deterrence (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Unrestricted warfare destroys the mutual confidence needed for any peace #complicates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 296
• Cheapening nuclear weapons is eroding the precondition for deterrence #complicates (0.75)
• Governments weaponize feminist rhetoric to justify wars. #complicates (0.72) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 589