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  1. Well, there are “boys” and then there are actual boys.

    Troops have always tended, in the main, to be young men, many of them in their late teens. But if you follow these links, you’ll find that in many of these countries the armed teenagers are far younger, and in some cases are even pre-pubescent.

  2. Regardless of their age these terrorists have to be killed. Sad to say ,but it is a matter of survial.

  3. The expression “our boys” was used all the time in WW2 and Korea and to a certain extent in Viet Nam and other conflicts. I suppose it is easier for politicians to start wars knowing that young men tend to be generally foolish and will march off to war at the drop of a hat. They are much more readily inspired by notions of God, country, mom and apple pie, or allah,imam, Dad and whatever their national dish may be on their side. I think all soliders return knowing they have been duped to a certain extent, because all these notions fall to the side in the first fire fight. I believe our troops know that the jihadis are not going to stop for any reason and are fully committed to dying. It’s a hell of a thing our boys have to do, but there is no choice in the matter.

  4. I am reminde of the plans the Japanese had in 1944-5.

    For cultural reasons, the Japanese found surrendur unthinkable. One of their plans was to arm every boy in sight wih a bamboo spear, and have them charge the US Marines.

    A desperate measure.

    Wonder why Truman gave the OK for dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

    More recently, certain Palestinian groups have used children as suicide bombers in Israel.

    Was that a sign of desperation? Arafat’s people had stopped bombing, then restarted. Then they moved to using younger people to carry the bombs–although I thought suicide bombing was typically done by late-teens.

    At any rate, roman’s story from Iran seems to be made of the same stuff: desperation on the part of military planners.

  5. Howie, NASA ??, You space cadet. The topic is kids with guns.
    Seriously though, the practice of using young boys as cannon fodder is a loathsome practice and should be done away with once an for all.
    One episode I will never forget took place during the Iran/Iraq war not too long ago. The ayatohlas
    kept sending young “recruits” dressed in sandles, sacrificial looking leisure wear and red ribbons tied around their heads into the swamps seperating the two sides. These boys were sent running
    through the reeds with antique bolt-action rifles against Iraqi
    machine gun emplacements. Day after day this went on. The bodies kept dropping for years in a protracted stalemate.
    This is how Islamic “brothers” treated each other. Can we as infidels expect better?

  6. It does appear that the islamic fundamentalists cannot adjust to much of the modern world, and we all certainly can’t adjust to any sharia law and existance as it was in the 7th century, where they want to drag us back to. That won’t happen but I’m afraid there is a long struggle ahead.

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  8. Yup, kids have been fighting in wars for all of human history. Many kids are bearing arms all over the world today. I have two ancestors that were militia men on the frontier at age 14 and 15, then at age 15 and 16, each participated in a battle against the British. The geneology research on these ancestors shows that the mother of John, then age 15, cried when he came home to report that he had signed up with the Colonial forces to engage the British. I suppose the threat of Indian raiders on the frontier was acceptable and most real and there was a necessity of her sons bearing arms, whereas the British were far off and no direct threat on the Virginia frontier. There were many 17 yr. olds in Viet Nam in 1965 and early into 1966, then it was decided that they were kids and had to wait a few months before going to Viet Nam. I suppose the jihadis view our Boy Scouts as youth indoctrination organizations. I suppose they would call it the American version of the nazi youth, infidels preparing to march off and kill the true believers, to rape and pillage and loot and pollute. Perhaps it should be us old bastards that are made to march off to war and kill and be killed, and anyone under the age of 40 be exempted.

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