Land mines are Good

The Bush Administration is refusing to sign the anti-land mine treaty. Good for it. Want to know what it’s doing instead? Updating policies to ensure the responsible use of land mines. But that’s not enough for certain “one world order” types.

Let’s talk about what land mines are for a moment. They’re WEAPONS. They’re weapons that serve a punishment (blowing up people who go where they shouldn’t) and a deterrent (Damn… what if there are land mines in that field!) and we use them… in places where we have a national interest in keeping people out of or away from something. People whine, bitch, and moan about old land mines that are armed but forgotten. They then extend that fear to ALL land mines, without regard for whether they are actually any sort of danger to innocent people.

This, my friends, is stupid.

Of course some people, like Democratic (surprise!) Senator Patrick Leahy (of Vermont — surprise again!), would really like us to subvert our national interests to a horde of international play-nice-rules. As far as I’m concerned, if we think we should use land mines, and some bunch of hippy, UN-loving “human rights” activists think we shouldn’t because “Like, land mines are bogus for real, comrade!” then we should adopt, as a nation, an official policy of “Fuck them.”

The article above quotes Stephen Goose (executive director of the arms control division of Human Rights Watch) as saying “The U.S. is the only country in NATO that hasn’t banned this weapon.”

Uh huh. Wanna know why that is, Stephen? It’s because we’re the only nation that doesn’t give two shits about some fringe “human rights” organization with irrational policies. It’s also because should any of the nations in NATO find themselves in some sort of military conflict, the odds are that we’d be in it with them… so if they really needed land mines… we could hook them up, because we’re good like that.

I’m waiting for the day when we tell the entire United Nations to fuck off. Any organization that gives France a permanent seat on the “Security Council” or puts Saudi Arabia and Cuba on the Human Rights Commission is pretty much a joke anyway.