jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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I must point out that us troops faced this in Vietnam, and while there was no official directive on engaging a child soldier, the human initiative took over, kill them before they have a chance to kill you. Hence part of the problem with returning vets and PTSD. Add to that that the Christian and Muslim militias in Lebanon had 'soldiers' as young as 9 years old carrying arms.... On Grenada, the Cuban army had kids as young as 14 under arms as 'apprentice' soldiers, basically students from their military school... And before all that the North Koreans routinely used 12 and thirteen year old kids as sappers and behind the lines snipers. To quote Top Kick Bellamy "Kill those mother fuckers before they can kill you, dont worry about how old or young they are, if they got a weapon pointed in your general direction, put a burst into em, better than going home in a body bag." The Official word to the general US public is that "American troops will try all things within reason to avoid engaging child soldiers." Of course, since President Trump ended the rules of engagement that would limit collateral damage, which in truth put our troops in a much higher risk of being killed or wounded or eliminating the possibility of taking out a high profile target, I say good move. You see, if 200 civilians are being kept as human shields to 15 or 20 terrorists, and they figure out that they can die just as fast in a drone strike as they could if they try and take out their captors, they may actually grow a spine and figure out these assholes are not doing a fucking thing for them. The odds always favor an unarmed mob who have figured out they have nothing left to loose, which is how a lot of those famous mobs in history got fucking guns in the first place.
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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