The United States risks losing its 'moral leadership,' Rep. Barbara Lee said.
Activists and international delegations stand next to cluster bomb units in the southern town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, on Sept. 12, 2011. | Mohammed Zaatari/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden’s decision to include cluster bombs in the latest $800 million weapons package for Ukraine has drawn disparate reactions from members of Congress, with some Democrats breaking with Biden.
“What I think is that we are — would risk losing our moral leadership,” Lee said. “And so I’m hoping that the administration would reconsider this because these are very dangerous bombs, they’re dangerous weapons and this is a line that I don’t believe we should cross.” “But the main thing is, they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now from their — keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don’t. And I think they needed them,” Biden said in the interview, which aired Sunday on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
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