Titus Peachey is director of peace education for the Mennonite Central Committee in Akron, Pa. Picture credit, MARWAN NAAMANI / AFP, Getty
A Lebanese boy stands near where he lost part of his right hand to a cluster bomb in 2006.
I love the Obama family's White House garden. It's a great way to promote the value of fresh, homegrown food, and I hope many will follow the example that the president and first lady have set. But today I am urging President Obama to pick up a pen instead of a garden hoe, because hidden in the garden's onions and tomatoes is a connection to international humanitarian law that deserves his immediate attention. Many countries have banned cluster bombs. Unfortunately, the U.S. isn't one of them.
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Titus Peachey a former coordinator of the committee's Cluster Bomb Removal Project in Laos. He can be contacted at tmp@mcc.org. For more information, see mcc.org/clusterbombs
