{"id":715,"date":"2005-08-05T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/112323267835344197\/"},"modified":"2005-08-05T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T09:48:00","slug":"112323267835344197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112323267835344197\/","title":{"rendered":"112323267835344197"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/HRW\/3400ca2c10895e6887be995f2aef914f.htm\">Way to keep the moral high ground there guys!<\/a> The full research paper on the United States&#8217; apparent plans to re-start production of antipersonnel landmines can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/backgrounder\/arms\/arms0805\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, the US is indeed one of the few countries left which hasn&#8217;t signed up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mine_Ban_Treaty\">1997 Ottawa Convention<\/a> &#8211; the Mine Ban Treaty &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbl.org\/treaty\/members\/non_sp?eZSESSIDicbl=cd50f73be98908f69f818703f54fc5f1\">distinguished list of 41 nations<\/a> that includes such bastions of democracy and freedom as Burma, China, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Vietnam, as well as a bunch of other dodgy buggers.)<\/p>\n<p>I like the US. I genuinely do. But it really is very hard to argue against its critics sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way to keep the moral high ground there guys! The full research paper on the United States&#8217; apparent plans to re-start production of antipersonnel landmines can be found here. (And yes, the US is indeed one of the few countries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112323267835344197\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}