[RaceBannon]

Allah loves the little children....

All the children of the world.....

[Savage Beast]

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

--Jesus

"Let the little children suffer, and come unto me. Nothing's more important than establishing and fortifying somekind of Islamic Kingdom."

--"Allah"

[TomGuy]

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

That Proverb has a lot deeper meaning that most realize. Training can be good or it can be evil. Train a child to love and care, or train a child to kill and hate. Either way, the child carries that training into adulthood (assuming he/she lives long enough to attain old age).

[Ajnin]

US troops already encountered child soldiers in Vietnam and Somalia, nothing new to us.

[toddst]

Units that have been engaged in these encounters may require special post-conflict treatment akin to what many police organizations provide their own personnel after a shooting incident.

I would have more confidence in this article, had the writer been American. The Brits are notorious for their over-sensitivity to this whole "combat is damaging to the survivors" thing. This is the same mindset being displayed by the Canadians hesitation over our awarding medals to their snipers who served so effectively in the Afgan war.

[TADSLOS]

This is hardly a new phenomenom, maybe more widespread and more horrific in some of their acts, but not new.

[gridlock]

Peter W. Singer, a post-doctoral fellow at the Brookings Institution...

I was just wondering, is this the Peter Singer, Bioethics Chair of Princeton University?

You know, the guy who rationalizes infanticide as just being a late-late term abortion?

The guy who thinks it should be A-OK to snuff your own kiddies up until their second birthday?

Just wonderin'

[Quila]

And 25 years ago they were calling our soldiers "baby killers" for being involved in a conflict child-soldiers. Shouldn't forget that fact to add to that soldier's anguish over having had to kill a child.

[mel]

This morning I heard a radio report, it seems a director of a refugee camp in Somalia was lamenting the increased restrictions on bringing refugees into the U.S. He said I really don't think Al Quaida or another terrorist network would spend several years in squalid camp conditions, simply to gain entrance to the U.S. I thought to my self, yes indeed, I wouldn't think parents would be proud of their children becoming suicide bombers either but it happens.

I heard this on NPR, I don't like NPR, but listen to it while getting ready for work. I have sent them nasty emails more than once on their biased reporting all to no avail I presume.

[dennisw]

This stuff is crazy. If the enemy is so evil to be training/brainwashing teens and kids to kill me then I will kill them first. With absolutely zero compunction. This is what I would do in a combat situation. Against Jihadists and anyone else.

[tracer]

This clearly is a job for Mister Rogers.....

[CaptRon]

It says something about the "Great Satan" that we know our troops would suffer some sort of psychological distress in this situation, yet those who would send children against us do so without mental reservation.

Just who is the "Great Satan" in this world, anyway?