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2016-09-29 Afghanistan

Taliban recruiting children as soldiers in their ranks: Ghor officials

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Posted by Fred 2016-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 That are hurting so bad they need to enlist the kiddies? I know that makes for a efficient and ( did I mention a real combat effective solution ) sort of trooper. How would you like to command a squad of highly motivated 12 year olds? Combat tends to sort people out pretty fast.

Sort you out ...and a few of your friends as well. Like in dead...

Then what have you got? And where do you go?

Posted by Elmonter Scourge of the Antelope2671 2016-09-29 05:00|| 2016-09-29 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Hemingway, it's called "establishing an ideological seed crop." Go ahead and look up the word. I'll wait. The commies used it in a lot of places. Africa for one. The Western ones use the school system to indoctrinate the kiddies and fill the ranks. Much more humane, doncha think?

And they're up against the Afghan army as well. There's a vaunted opponent.

More likely the kiddies are date-night fodder, cheap labor, scouts and walking bombs - in that order.

But you thought of all that. Right, Hemingway?

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-29 08:21|| 2016-09-29 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The images of old men and children marching to face the Red Army in Berlin come to mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-29 08:33|| 2016-09-29 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 If it was the Afghan National Army doing the recruiting, that would be an accurate analogy.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-29 13:00|| 2016-09-29 13:00|| Front Page Top

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