Should our soldiers sacrificed their lives to..

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I am sorry but this view, not the leaving

But the lack of an ability for a soldier or a unit to defend one self is bizarre.

I am certainly glad you were not in charge of the US in 1945. The volksgrenadiers included boys as young as fourteen and men as old as 65.

Should the Allied troops not defended themselves and just marched back to Normandy? I mean, those were children!

The use of children in war is supposedly penalized by international law with good reason. It is also a tactic, and a successful one as well. After all, folks like you are too precious, sorry for this, to get it. War is nasty business and soldiers have a fundamental right of self defense in the field. If a child, these kids are usually as young as 14, see the example of the Volksgrenadiers, attacks or threatens soldiers they have a right to defend themselves and go home.

It might hurt your sensibilities, but that is the way it is.

If you want to argue we must leave due to the expense, the lack of strategic goals met, things like that, sure. You will have little discussion from me. But we need to leave due to child soldiers? You kid me. One more thing, until relatively recently we used child soldiers. Younger men than 18 enlisted. And the civil war, the drum boys were, well...yes...as young as 14.

And sadly people have used very young children as well. You are faulting the soldier for a decision made by others? Amazing.