Thanx Kulindar anyone who would use a child to do that deserves no help but what about all the innocent people ?
We pride ourselfs on our humanity and we should always do so.
This is what happens when we stop giving real educations.
A real education for leaders in this country would mean they'd read the story of the Long Walls, in the original, and know that when you enter a prolonged battle with a ruthless enemy, you become ruthless yourself -- and not just to the enemy, but to your own people.
That's why the mind-boggling casualty rates of Word War II, and even the first bomb on Japan, were a fair price: imagine if we'd decided on a slow strategy, dragging out the war against the Nazis for ten years? We'd have become calloused and harsh.
That's what this military adventure and war are doing to us. Too many of our soldiers are becoming like the legionairies of old, ready to go 'do war', not caring terribly about how it got done so long as the enemy died.
That's the only justification I see for the constant pursuit of advanced technology for the military -- not to be certain to win overwhelmingly, but to be so secure in our own strength that we can afford to use only what's absolutely necessary. War has mostly been a game of throwing whatever strength you could against a foe, and to hell with the collateral damage -- but to worry about collateral damage takes true strength (proof positive that suicide bombers are actually cowards), and being able to afford the price of caring takes supreme strength.
To the fanatics, streaming bullets at your enemy and not caring (except perhaps for a brainless prayer surely offensive to God for its shallowness) that you gun down a child is strength. I say they are fools, less than dogs in their understanding: strength means taking hits, and getting to where the child is not in the field of fire, and only then cutting loose.
Allah, if not merely a delusion born of bad food and desert heat, must surely have a special place for those who shoot children -- but I think it would be rather a nice locale, next to that for shooting those who go to aid children.
