Ten years

It looks like the pentagon is attempting a punt on cluster bombs, in reaction to a recent treaty banning them that we didn't join. It wants to use '99% effective' bombs by 10 years from now. As it states further down in the article, this type of thing has already been proposed with negligible effect. If we stop using them our soldiers lives will be at risk, so the logic says. Anything less than indiscriminate bombing will require actual warfighting, and we just don't have the stomach to do that, especially in two wars at the same time. Anything we can do to keep the deaths we keep track of (our own) to a minimum. Fast cheap easy war for fast cheap easy energy for fast cheap easy folks brought to you by a slow spendy obnoxious frat boy.