noam chomsky supports children in miiltary too i understand

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Feb 11 12:47:09 PST 2003



>Dorene FC wrote:


>If he actually said it, I would find it humorous that he at least
>agrees with the US government in one respect. The US Government is
>unwilling to sign onto conventions outlawing child soldiers because
>they want to continue their practice of recruiting 17-year-olds into
>the supposedly "volunteer" military. So both Chomksy and the USG
>support the right of some state forms, theirs, to involve child
>soldiers.

"Child"=<18 yrs old? By that age Alexander the Great, in the battle of Chaeronaea, had personally led the decisive cavalry charge that destroyed armed opposition to Macedonian rule over all Hellas.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64

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