by Robert Borneman

Created on: April 24, 2008

I can't decide whether or not I believe this is a serious question. Should the UN outlaw using children for suicide bombing? No, they should encourage it?! This is insanely stupid, not the fact that this is a topic up for debate, but that this is a topic in the UN at all. Of course it should be illegal to use children, but shouldn't suicide bombing altogether be illegal? Making it illegal for the terrorists to use children will have about as much effect on terrorists as the death penalty has: none.

Terrorists take pleasure in death. I think this is where this argument about how to stop terrorists always splits. It's hard, especially for non-Islamic people I guess, to understand the mindset of an Islamic terrorist. Terrorists, especially religious based extremists, know they are going to die. Not only do they know it, they are excited about it. Their martyrdom as a religious extremist is what their entire lives lead up to. That's the entire problem with these 'religious terrorists', which I guess is the best way to describe them, they want to lose their lives for their cause, which means they literally have nothing to lose. We all know the saying, the only man to fear is a man with nothing to lose.

We've got to look beyond the individual pieces of the problem, and look at religious terrorism in a new way. Sure, using children for suicide bombing is horrible, but making it against the law is just a pointless task to keep the UN looking busy when it seems they are actually at a total loss. I just can't understand what purpose this law would actually serve. We can't scare the terrorists into stopping. We've marched through their countries and annihilated their homelands. We have killed thousands and thousands of terrorists. Thousands more have killed themselves and taken innocent lives with them. This proposed law has nothing to do with stopping terrorism, and is terrorism not the problem here?

Maybe the battle with Islamic extremists will never end. It's possible that they will just never give up and America and it's allies will have to remain constantly on the offense. Who knows? All I know is that it's not going to do anything anywhere to any extent by passing another pointless law. This law reminds me of a law here in Georgia that you can't buy alcohol on Sunday...you can still drink alcohol all you want on Sunday, you just have to buy it on Saturday. Totally pointless. Making using children for suicide bombing illegal is laughable. Its totally missing the point.

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