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The Dutch army hasn´t shot any Afghan children, thank you very much  Not all armies in the world are the same.
many things occur that the public are never told why because
most could not handle the truth
but from what I know all respond the same when out in the field.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/10/afghan_civilians_killed_in_dut.php
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/02/21/Dutch_troops_to_leave_Afghanistan_as_planned_PM/
as a soldier and a paramedic who has been out in the field , I can say you don´t always
have a choice who you shoot when you are under attack, nor do you always know.
Many kids are used as bate and armed up to the gills. This is not the only war that uses children. Please do a google search of children used as weapons for war.
R.O.E. (rules of engagement) for Military troops and repeated by commanders
of the NATO troops is ´if you feel threatened by someone at anytime you can
remove that threat´. Thus you have a very wide discretion placed upon the
individual soldiers perception on what if any threat is presented. Someone might
percieve a threat simply by a Afghan villager sticking his/her head outside their
door. Another might perceive a threat if a young Afghan holding a gun is peering
thru a window. Sadly, in the Marjah campaign a convoy of Afghan civilians fleeing
the fight were perceived as a threat and a air-strike was called in which killed all
of them.
Complicating that accurate perception is the wide scale use of anti-depressants
which hype the sensory inputs of the soldiers and ambian to knock the soldiers
out to sleep. Ambian intoxication when taken for many days invariably leads to
confused thinking and a walking while still asleep condition. Either of those two
drugs can greatly lead a soldier to ´see´ or sense a threat to their life where no
such threat exists.
An Afghan man/boy with a strange smile and holding his cell phone could be
mistaken to be a Taliban soldier holding a remote detonator and immediately
dropped with a 3 round burst.
None of this should of ever happened: 40 years ago Afghanistan was a very
cultured city look it up.
Afghanistan wouldn´t of have to fight the Soviets had it not been for the
West´s intervention in the country. King Daud made a mistake by siding
with the West and later Mujahedeen made a mistake fighting the Soviets.
They should´ve allowed the Soviets build Afghanistan and today Afghanistan
wouldn´t be a ruined desert occupied by Nato bases getting ready for future
energy battles with China/russia.
He never saw it coming. On Jan. 4, 2002, Sgt. Nathan Ross Chapman
was the first U.S. serviceman to be killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan.
A 31-year-old Green Beret who also served in the Persian Gulf War,
Chapman was killed by sniper fire after meeting with local tribal leaders
in Paktia province. He knew the dangers he faced but probably never
imagined he would die from a bullet fired by a child soldier.
An isolated incident? Sadly, no. Seeing gun-wielding children as
young as 7 or 8 shooting at U.S. troops may shock the American public,
but war no longer is the exclusive domain of adults. Child soldiers are a
growing phenomenon in Third World countries as gun manufacturers
have produced ever-lighter assault weapons that can be carried by
children. By definition a child soldier is younger than 18. While the
United States allows those as young as 17 to serve with parental
consent, many Third World countries appear to be robbing grammar
schools to support their regimes.
Today, as many as 300,000 child soldiers are engaged in military
fighting in approximately 30 countries on every continent except
Antarctica and Australia. In addition to Afghanistan, for example
, child soldiers are serving in armies in Angola, Uganda, Pakistan,
Burma, Sierra Leone, Colombia and Chechnya. Not even little girls are
exempt from this conscription. Often they find themselves forced into
sexual slavery or used as human minesweepers.
Edited (5/30/2010) by Paramedic
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