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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: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday August 02 2016, @10:11AM
Only a masochist occupies and rebuilds the country he has just defeated.
Very true. After all, look at what the allies did in Germany and Japan after the Second World War, only to have these two become their implacable enemy for the second half of the twentieth century, sending suicide bombers to attack them and embarking on terrorist actions for decades.
As always, you display a complete lack of understanding of history. Go and read up on the Treaty of Versailles and the causes of World War II to understand why people more intelligent than you realised that this was a stupid policy before you were born.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 02 2016, @03:00PM
The treaty of Versaille was instrumenal in the ongoing rape of Germany, for years after the war ended. Defeat in WW1 didn't lead to WW2 - instead, the ongoing rape of Germany made it possible for Hitler to appeal to German's sense of justice, on his path to taking power.
France is at least as responsible for WW2 as Germany was.
And, nowhere in my punitive expedition post did I make any mention of decades-long exploitation of a former adversary. Kick ass, don't take any names, go home, and go about your own business. That way, there are no grudges for later generations to settle with our children/grandchildren.