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2007-12-04 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-12-04 02:17|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 A ten year old with a loaded gun pointed at you is still a threat, not a youngster.

Posted by Bobby 2007-12-04 06:20|| 2007-12-04 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 No, Bobby. At 10 he's a child. A DEADLY child, but a child all the same. It is a very problematic situation - you can't let him go, because he is dangerous, but it's hard to keep him locked up, for world 'humanitarian' reasons. Teach him to read - something besides the Koran - and brainwash/de-program him.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-12-04 07:26|| 2007-12-04 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The muzzahideen like young boys. They're all probably getting along well...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-12-04 08:30|| 2007-12-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 At 10 he's a child. A DEADLY child, but a child all the same.

No. He. Is. Not. A child that is. His childhood has been stolen, but at 10, in his world he has already been imprinted. There is very little chance of salvaging these kids after a certain age.

I can understand your emotions, but you will have to set them aside and use reasoning. These people are not like us, and neither are the kids that have been indoctrinated into fundamentalist Islam from the time they could hold their head up.

Get over it.

Posted by Large Sleresh3870 2007-12-04 09:28|| 2007-12-04 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Like Germany in WWII, you can tell the end is near when they through in the children.

I'm not sure the comparison is apt, there's a gulf between involved cultures, even at the birthrate levels. Child-soldiers, or children used as tools in irregular warfare, seem very ubiquitous in non-western ways of war.

At 10 he's a child. A DEADLY child, but a child all the same.

Agree and disagree. On a values level, you're right, and I'm sure the USA treat them as children.
Still, I remember reading (here? Not sure) about how IIRC shiites were captured in a sunni neighbourhood, and how while the adult men were being tortured/killed by adults, the young teen/child was "given" to boys his age, so they could beat him before he was to be killed; he managed to escape, and that's what he told, could b epropaganda, but when you see the various pics of joyful falluhja kiddies having a jolly good time around the desacrated and mutilated bodies of the Blackwater contrators, or earlier of their somali counterparts happily jumping up and down on dragged Us bodies, you've got to wonder how universal is the concept of "childhood".

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-12-04 09:38|| 2007-12-04 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 The experience in West Africa says that child-soldiers can indeed be reclaimed. It takes hard work, education and job opportunities, but the children can be brought to adulthood and re-integrated into society.

I would not give up on these children; I would do the hard work of reeducating them.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-12-04 10:00|| 2007-12-04 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The Iraqi gubmint should be responsible for them. They could provide the education, food, and shelter, and bring them back into society. Maybe the Iraqis would get a view of just how destructive their beloved Islam is to the human soul and phase out this death cult. That is if any Iraqis are capable of such enlightenment.

Posted by wxjames 2007-12-04 11:34|| 2007-12-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 We have Yoots right here in the good old USA every bit as vicious as the Iraqi Yoots. Given the means Im sure they would add IEDs to drive bys and the rest of their arsenal of mayhem.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-12-04 12:16|| 2007-12-04 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 The ones running drugs with / joining MS-13 will soon have the means, I fear.

Posted by lotp 2007-12-04 12:29|| 2007-12-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's an interesting example of checkered path from teen years onward, from close at hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweisi_Mfume

Posted by Unerelet Dingle7050 2007-12-04 20:44|| 2007-12-04 20:44|| Front Page Top

#11 FREEREPUBLIC > AL-QAEDA > ONLY TWO HUNDRED FOREIGN FIGHTERS LEFT IN IRAQ.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-04 23:26|| 2007-12-04 23:26|| Front Page Top

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