A famous haunting picture taken during Hitler's last days - shows what was left of the German army at that point. Hitler is giving medals to some of the remaining "soldiers" defending Berlin. Such a sad picture:
Posted on 07/11/2010 9:10:21 PM PDT by edpc
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S. Staff Sergeant Aaron Best made no apologies as his soldiers escorted 14-year-old Ahmad, blindfolded and handcuffed, onto their outpost in southern Afghanistan for questioning.
"Don't be fooled," said Best, "I have detained so many teenagers. These fighters are getting younger and younger."
Ahmad, whose real name has been concealed to protect his identity, was picked up by a U.S. patrol along with a 15-year-old boy in Arghandab, in southern Kandahar province, one of Afghanistan's most volatile regions, because they were behaving suspiciously.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
F 'em. If they feel they're old enough to take up arms against our armed forces, they're old enough to realize the consequences.
That’s different. Kerry shot him in the back.
Give your enemy an inch and he’ll take a mile.
You want to know what the funniest and most infuriating thing is? The people brainwashing women and children to sacrifice themselves probably won’t get an eye batted at them, but the soldiers who have to defend themselves against them will probably be called murderers.
No wonder it takes us 10 years to win a war nowadays. My Dad and I got into an argument the other day because I said we should bring all our troops home. He thought I was crazy, but if we keep fighting wars this way we will never get out of whereever we may be. Either devestate and win or don’t go in the first place.
I saw a video on the net that was filmed in 1945. A couple of 14 year old teenage German boys had been caught getting information to German soldiers. The video shows one of teh boys being tied to a tree and gunned down by an American firing squad.
I personally think the kids there should have been jailed as POWs, but they were seen as spies and not afforded protection under the Geneva Convention.
These kids in Afghanistan, if old enough to pick up and point a gun, need to be shot by coalition forces. Why allow an American child to lose his dad because his dad could not defend himself adequatly against a kid with the intent of killing him.
Aye. Fight to win or not at all.
Sounds like they’re down to their Hitler Youth?
Do Omoslem’s ROE order you to “Never shoot anyone under the age of _____?”
B/c then, the dirty moslems will just send kids with guns to shoot at us. And if we shoot back, Omoslem court martials everybody.
I’m making a special effort this week, when I see folks who voted for Omoslem, to treat them like crap and make sure I clarify how stupid they are.
“...but the soldiers who have to defend themselves against them will probably be called murderers.”
Those Leftist hate mongers called our Vietnam Vets, yet those same whackos were only too happy to kill the unborn themselves.
Our Leftist lawyers within the military are going to have a field day going after our soldiers who kill these children in self defense.
Too young? *shakeshead*
Is the enemy “too young to kill” if he is firing at you and trying to kill you? Hardly. That would be one dead kid....
There was a bridge and American troops were moving over it. A German waited until a lot of troops were on it and blew the bridge. He was caught. Patton witnessed the incident and remarked that they should have shot him.
There was a patrol which encountered some German youths. The patrol lost some good men. The battle ended and the American officer in charge had his men tie up the the Commander of the German teenagers, and he clubbed him to death with his rifle.
In another incident, a sniper had killed some men of a unit. The sniper was captured alive, and a PFC dutifully began to take the sniper to the rear as a prisoner. The Lt who had lost men to the sniper yelled at the PFC and made him stop. The Lt took out his pistol and shot the sniper in the back of the head.
With the deaths of so many Americans our people weren't too hesitant at times to do what needed to be done.
Teenagers are adults just young ones. They can decide to do adult things like kill....
Jihadists place no age limit on infidels, they blow up
the young as well as old, they recognize no quarter,
why should we.
The reason we have the Geneva Convention is so that we wind up with less deaths. Japanese did not follow the Convention, and so they tortured US POWs and killed many. Of course, the Japanese suspected that would happen to them so due to this, and to the dishonor of surrender, they would fight to the death and take many US soldiers with them.
My dad was in WW2 and I think he would agree that killing a POW is terribly wrong and those who did it shuld have been prosecuted. It is insurance that our POWs will be afforded better care and that the enemy will more likely surrender — as well as being the right thing to do.
Obama probably awards the troops with his humanitarian award for not firing on these terrorists.
There’s a so-called ‘Canadian’ citizen of Arab heritage being held at Gitmo. He is alleged to have killed at least one American in Afghanistan with a grenade.
Because this little terrorist (whose mother makes anti-freedom, pro-Islam comments all the while receiving the best post-secondary education our nation has to offer) was only a teenager at the time (about 15), the bleeding hearts up here have created such a buzz that even the leftist Supreme court has gotten involved.
He was only a kid, don’t you know.
IIRC that was the last war we won outright. Probably ended up killing a whole lot less, including of those toddlers, than if we'd invaded and slugged it out on their turf.
Situations are not comparable, in many ways. But sometimes, almost always, hitting hard and finishing the job, or as much of it as can be finished, will save lives in the long run, yours and the enemy's.
Sorry. War sucks. Always has. We can't change that.
/johnny
the taliban may be trying to game Zero’s clueless rules of engagement.
but i actually think this may be a good indicator that the taliban are running out of military age males.
the comparison to the hitler youth at the end of the war may be apt.
A famous haunting picture taken during Hitler's last days - shows what was left of the German army at that point. Hitler is giving medals to some of the remaining "soldiers" defending Berlin. Such a sad picture:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.