Keiner der gängigen Politiker blickt da durch, egal wie oft er sich die Terrorbezeichnung "Al Qaida" wie ein Mantra vorbetet. In allem diesem Gewürge hat das, was zum Wohl der Völker sein soll, längst alle Unschuld eingebüsst. "Wir sind die Guten, und wir wissen das ganz genau!" rufen sie alle beschwörend. Vermutlich glauben sie sich selber - vor allem des Nachts, in ihren Träumen.
Ob die Menschen ihnen glauben ist egal geworden. Genau darum kann der Friedensnobelpreisträger Barack Obama - Präsident der USA - nun kundtun, dass auch Kindersoldaten für ihn vollkommen okay sind, so lange sie für ihn, das Empire und die "gute Sache" gegen den Terrorismus kämpfen.
“You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.”
—15 year-old child soldier
White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists
The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds.The administration stunned human rights groups last month by sidestepping a commitment to help countries curb the military exploitation of children. Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy reported that President Obama issued a presidential memorandum granting waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to four countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. The memo instructed Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that it is in our “national interest” to continue extending military aid to those countries, despite their failure to comply with the rules Congress passed and George W. Bush signed in 2008.
A thumbs-up for child soldiers from the pen of President Obama? Whitehouse spokesperson P.J. Crowley explained it was a strategic decision to ease the 2008 law. The rationale is that on balance, it’s more effective for the U.S. to keep providing military assistance that will help countries gradually evolve out of the practice of marshaling kids to the battlefield, rather than isolating them.
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