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2005-11-13 Afghanistan-Pak-India

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Posted by john 2005-11-13 15:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The popularity of the Islamic militants has risen sharply since the earthquake struck on October 8, killing more than 87,000 people.

The jihadi propagandist who told me this seemed very credible.

Posted by ryuge 2005-11-13 15:29|| 2005-11-13 15:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Quake orphans âadoptedâ for jihad

[brutal @sshole]

If that's the only alternative, they're better off dead.

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Posted by Zenster 2005-11-13 15:46|| 2005-11-13 15:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem with children raised to be killers is that they are usually worthless. Remember the fearsome secret police in Romania that were orphans, brought up with a "the state is mother, the state is father" attitude? When Romania fell, they just crawled off.

The bottom line is that kids like that know what they are doing is twisted. It ain't natural, and they know that nobody gives a damn about them. This neither breeds loyalty or effectiveness.

Certainly, they will parrot back what they are taught, but that means little. By the time they are old enough to be used, they won't want to be used. Their lives are for shit, and they know it. Their dreams are just to be normal somehow.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-13 17:04|| 2005-11-13 17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I sure hope you're right, moose.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-13 17:19|| 2005-11-13 17:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Otherwise they become mercenaries in the literal sense of the word?

And no, I don't know re: Romania.

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-11-13 18:17|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-11-13 18:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Edward, the Romanian "orphanages" were nothing short of state sponsored concentration camps for infants and children unfortunate enough to lose their parents or be abandoned by them. Ceausescu was a miniature Stalin whose inhumanity knew no compass. Would that he could have died half as slowly as so many of those innocent young inmates did.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-13 18:45|| 2005-11-13 18:45|| Front Page Top

#7 One especially cruel aspect of the Romanian orphanages is that they followed a discredited theory that occasional injections of blood would improve their vigor. It didn't; they reused their syringes, and so 2,300 Romanian orphans developed AIDS.

Don't be so blithe about the danger represented by child soldiers, moose. many of the worst of the killers in Sierra Leone were children. They were brutalized and brainwashed, and they were deadly to the civilians they came across.

I would prefer that our soldiers not be forced to fight children.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2005-11-13 19:51|| 2005-11-13 19:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks, Zenster, but I meant this: Remember the fearsome secret police in Romania that were orphans, brought up with a "the state is mother, the state is father" attitude?

And Eric Jablow has it right; let's never forget shooters' ability to get lucky... and let's never forget that a child with an AK-47 means good PR for the other side.

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-11-13 20:04|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-11-13 20:04|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess that is the end of that entire region.

Posted by newc">newc 2005-11-13 20:45|| 2005-11-13 20:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like the Ultimate slavery to me. The fact that Islam is so accepting of this without any sort of outcry just shows how sick that religion - and I mean mainstream Islam - really is.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-13 22:55|| 2005-11-13 22:55|| Front Page Top

#11 PR, Edward? I'm not concerned with PR. I just don't want to see dead or brutalized children, and I don't want our soldiers to face the guilt after they have to fight children. And, the way they trained the children in Sierra Leone was extremely horrific.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2005-11-13 23:06|| 2005-11-13 23:06|| Front Page Top

#12 What you will get if the quake orphans are adopted by jihadi outfits is one massive group of people with reactive attachment disorder. That is, in the atmosphere without normal nuturing, like some of those ex-Soviet Bloc orphanages, you will make a whole crop of people that will be incapable of empathy, like normal people. They will be always broken people, incapable of changing, and are virtually condemned to death.

The only way out of this hellhole that we find ourselves in, w/r/t Pak and Kashmir is to cut out the Jihadi financing, and that gets back to the Saudis. It always comes back to Saudi and Iran, because that is where the money comes from for this insanity.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-13 23:12|| 2005-11-13 23:12|| Front Page Top

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