by Kenneth Sibbett

Created on: May 11, 2011   Last Updated: June 02, 2011

The United States, along all developing countries, have a moral obligation to rehabilitate the children who have been kidnapped, drugged and forced to carry a gun against their will.They force kids to kill men, women and children without even knowing why. These children do not not volunteer for this, they are torn away from their families and their villages by War Lords who care only about themselves. These children are just disposable objects to these monsters who kidnap them on a whim. They are turned them into drug addicts, to keep them awake for days so they can kill, while stopping their bellies from aching for food. Yet the world stands by and allows it to happen.

No one knows how the world world would have turned out without  America and other countries becoming allies and intervening during WWll. No one could imagine the United States and Russia as allies, but without them, Hitler and his Nazi regime may have very well succeeded in their quest for world domination. Yet with the help of England other allies, we stopped Hitler and his thugs from ruling the world. Imagine if we would have entered the war earlier. We may well have saved six million Jews from the gas chamber. Is helping these abused children in third world countries that much different than the Jewish plight?

Most of these third world countries have no central government, or a weak one at best. The poverty is over-whelming and the heads of the various tribes in these countries are killers, with no conscience whatsoever. They rape, pillage and murder at will, all because there is no country powerful enough to stop them that will commit to helping them. It is a shame that the rest of the world stands by and watches as these genocides happen and do nothing.  

President Bill Clinton has said one of the worst mistakes he made while in office was doing nothing about the genocide in Rwanda. Why? If these countries were oil-rich, we would be fighting other countries over the right to help these people. Weapons made in developing countries are smuggled in by illegal arms dealers who will often take these poor children and sell them to others, who then put them to wok in prostitution, or slave labor. The sex trade of small girls and boys is another international problem. These weapons should never even make it into the hands of these children, yet the world turns a blind eye to it because there is nothing in it for us.

The United States is the worlds last superpower. We are and have been for the last decade the world's policeman. Wherever there are countries committing acts of genocide, or the unnecessary taking of lives, we are often called to help. The ongoing conflict in Libya is an example. If we can do that in the Middle East and N. Africa, why can't we help rehabilitate these poor children. They are not murderers by choice. They can, and have, learned to live decent lives like all children everywhere., We cannot allow these countries to treat children like slaves and teach them to kill and murder before they are even teenagers  We have a moral pejorative to help these children, just like we would help own own children. It is the right thing to do!

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