Posted on Mar 7, 2015
Children Implementation in ISIS... Will this change the Laws of War?
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You have to ask yourself since the battlefield is always changing will the Laws of War see revision? Videos pushed by ISIS show training of children. but more so disturbing is the fact that service members know they may need to take the life of that child some day, and this is not the first time we have seen children implemented in training or used as troops. Current LoW will keep soldiers a little more tight on their weapons which may cause lives of our ground forces. We have a opposing force that is teaching their young to hate and loathe a multitude of the united nations. So do you feel the current LoW are adequate. (this is not to start a debate or a reflection of my personal views I just want to see where our force troops feel on this matter).
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Edited 10 y ago
Posted 10 y ago
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Laws must constantly evolve to keep pace with evolving realities. That being said, I doubt if anyone (anyone sane) could kill a child and not feel remorse regardless of what the law provides. For me, it only serves to intensify my disgust with and hatred of those who put weapons in the hands of children and teach them to hate. They are, in effect, stealing childhood. They are betraying the innocence of youth. Is there any greater crime?
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This has been going on since Vietnam with Children throwing bombs at Americans. Nothing new just being brought to like that's all. Weapon=Combatant Unarmed=Non-Combatant People seem to forget all about Vietnam. But I believe it was war not a conflict as I was taught in school. After all My Dad fought in Vietnam. And well I believe him when he says "You never knew who was the enemy because they also used children to blow things up"
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Child soldiers are hardly a new phenomenon, and it's certainly not the first time that US armed forces have been faced with them. It just goes to show what kind of irredeemable scum we're tasked with evicting from corporeal existance.
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