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from the when-you-DO-NOT-want-them-to-"think-of-the-children!" dept.
A couple of weeks ago this story was reported by The Daily Beast :
Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video.
The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a captured child in Handarat, near Aleppo. The young boy, who appears to be prepubescent, is then executed on the back of a pickup truck.
The gruesome videotaped murder of a child drew outrage on social media and the promise of an inquiry from the group's leadership, which has previously received U.S.-made weapons and American funding. The group no longer gets such backing. But it's also renewed questions about which rebels the American government has supported in Syria's ongoing civil war.
[...] State Department spokesperson John Kirby told The Daily Beast. "We strongly condemn this type of barbaric action, no matter what group is responsible. We encourage al-Zenki to investigate the incident and expect all parties to comply with their obligations under the law of armed conflict."
[...] the group's leadership issued a statement condemning the beheading. It said it formed a committee to investigate how such a crime could have happened.
More video from the incident has been released:
The victim is seen among a group of fighters from the US and Turkish backed militant group, in the same red pick-up truck that features in their video of his execution. In a chilling exchange the jihadist militants can be seen taunting the child, taking selfies, and threatening him with 'slaughter'.
When asked about his final wish, the child asks to be shot rather than slaughtered. Their shocking answer? "Slaughter. We are even worse than ISIS"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @05:04PM
Indeed. W ran on a non-intervention platform: "I am not a nation-builder". But changed his tune big-time after 9/11. W's own father blamed Cheney et al in his autobiography for talking W into Iraq.
Presidents are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get. And Forest Trump is hardly giving consistent Mid-East policies even now, sounding like a non-interventionist one day, and a fist-pounding Rambo the next.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by CirclesInSand on Monday August 01 2016, @11:34PM
That's a big reason that you shouldn't vote for someone for president unless they've had a lot of legislative experience that you approve of. If someone has no legislative experience or bad legislative experience you can be sure they are going to be pushed around and give away like Bush and Obama were.
It's also a lot of the wisdom of letting the president be chosen by the federal congress, as was the original method of presidential election. The president is supposed to implement the policies of congress, not write his own policies, and the best way to do that is to have him be chosen by congress. It would also end all this news hype around what is supposed to be a very insignificant choice, the matter of who is president.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 02 2016, @04:49PM
That's a big reason that you shouldn't vote for someone for president unless they've had a lot of legislative experience that you approve of. If someone has no legislative experience or bad legislative experience you can be sure they are going to be pushed around and give away like Bush and Obama were
Sanders supporters should like Clinton then. Clinton voted the same way Sanders did 93% of the time [nytimes.com]when they were both in the Senate.