The video above is of a song titled “Universal Soldier” It describes the stupidity of war, and the unique burden that men carry to wage it. At the end the video pans to a lone child soldier, an African boy carrying a weapon that if stood on it’s end would probably reach his shoulders. I’m going to address child soldiers in this post but first lets revisit a now infamous statement.

The following quote is attributed to Hillary Clinton.

“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”

In one sentence, she has managed to encapsulate how deadly gynocentrism is for the male sex. Here, a woman of vast wealth and political means sits in her ivory tower and presumes to speak for the victims of war having never been in combat herself. More importantly, she said this while living in a society that would never expect her to.

To anyone that actually understands the toll of warfare, they will immediately grasp that the burden is shouldered almost exclusively by males, not just men, but the male sex. War casualties do not discriminate by gender of course, but women do not fight in wars, girls do not fight in wars, and will never be expected to, even when technology makes the differences between physical disadvantages of female soldiers obsolete.

Imagine a world where this was the case. Imagine that Exoskeletons have made it so that the physical ability of the soldier is determined by what mechanized unit he or she is housed in instead of their anatomy and gender. I believe that even in this scenario, women would not be allowed into the most dangerous combat. My reasoning for this is simple… Female life, by all accounts is considered more important than male life. It’s that simple.

Boys, are sent to war before women are. Surely many full grown women can overpower an eleven year old boy, no? And yet we send boys to war. In terms of child soldiers facts are unclear as to how many in the world are currently actively involved in military conflicts, and the reasons for the occurrence of children in war are complex but an article titled ISIS Brutalizes Boys to Create an Army of Child Soldiers, Victims Say helps us to shed light on the topic, I will post the most relevant bits below with commentary added.

Mohammed, 14, uses a wheelchair to move around the tiny apartment where he lives in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa with his brother and a friend of the family who acts as his nurse. The apartment is on the third floor of a dilapidated walk-up building. It has no air conditioning. The doorways in the apartment are narrow. His wheelchair doesn’t fit through all of them, so Mohammed, originally from eastern Syria, often pushes himself out of the chair and hops around the apartment on one foot. ISIS chopped off Mohammed’s right hand and left foot two weeks ago. ISIS tried to turn Mohammed into a child soldier. The group disfigured him because he refused to cooperate.

This disgusting practice has its origins in some retributive passages in the Quran reserved for those who resist Islam:

“The recompense of those who fight Allah and His messenger, and seek to make corruption in the land, is that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from alternate sides or that they be banished from the land; that is their disgrace in this world and in the Hereafter they will have a great torment.” (Qur’an 5:33)

We should not, however, make the mistake of assuming that these kinds of abuses surrounding children in war, boys in war specifically are unique to the Mohammedans, we should not forget the thousands of child soldiers that were forced to rape and murder in hopes of creating a desensitized unquestioning soldier when these boys, sometimes as young as twelve grew into men, by the “liberation” and “peoples” armies in the conflict heavy regions of Sierra Leone and Liberia for the pursuit of conflict diamonds, assuming of course that they even made it to that age.

Child soldiers in Sierra Leone were kept drugged and were forced to rape and murder on command. Western countries are not above the same type of behavior, lest we forget the child soldiers that were recruited by the infamous British white feather campaign during world war one. The shaming of underaged boys with a white feather by women is well documented and I will post an excerpt below.

A 15-year-old boy lied about his age to get into the army in 1914. He was in the retreat from Mons, the Battle of the Marne and the first Battle of Ypres, before he caught a fever and was sent home. Walking across Putney Bridge, four girls gave him white feathers. “I explained to them that I had been in the army and been discharged, and I was still only 16. Several people had collected around the girls and there was giggling, and I felt most uncomfortable and … very humiliated.” He walked straight into the nearest recruiting office and rejoined the army.

Fifteen year old boys used as fodder because cowardly women felt entitled to using male bodies as self defense, nothing new under the sun as they say. Gentleman, understand one thing, the main weapon that is used against men and boys is a form of psychological warfare surrounding the definition of manhood according to everyone else but men and boys. Through this, millions upon millions of men have been shoveled into an early grave. Conscription, suicide after divorce, early death due to overworking oneself amongst “family men”… all of that can be traced back to men trying to live up to a standard of masculinity that benefits everyone but themselves. I will continue with the original article (Emphasis mine).

Ahmed is another boy from the same part of Syria as Mohammed, but is two and a half years older than him. Ahmed says ISIS coerced him into fighting for the group with a combination of threats and false promises. Interviews by NBC News with Mohammed, Ahmed, their guardians, Syrian activists and a former ISIS commander who defected, reveal a disturbing ISIS strategy to recruit and deploy an army of child soldiers, brainwashing them until they are ready to blow themselves up or carry out terrorist attacks in the Middle East and abroad, and brutalizing those who refuse to cooperate. Much has been written about ISIS’s monstrous treatment of girls, forcing them to become child brides or sex slaves, passed from fighter to fighter. This is a story about what ISIS is doing to the boys in areas under its control. Rebel boys Although Ahmed and Mohammed both look like typical young teenagers, pimples and all, the boys were both part of rebel groups fighting against the Syrian regime and ISIS. Mohammed worked as a spotter, using binoculars to help the rebels locate their targets. “First we were going to (anti-government) demonstrations. Later on we got armed with the Free (Syrian) Army, and we fought the (Bashar) al-Assad regime for three years,” Mohammed says with obvious pride in his voice. Ahmed started out as a helper, serving the rebels meals and running errands, until he eventually earned enough respect to be given a gun.

This last part about how Ahmed “earned” enough respect to carry a gun, boys in particular eat this stuff right up. Boys want to feel like men badly, they want to prove themselves to other men and will devote copious amounts of time and energy toward earning that respect, this force of nature is seldom harnessed for good, it is instead used by people who understand it to get boys and men to destroy each other, usually for things as trivial as a “medal of honor” or a purple heart or some other hunk of metal ostentatiously named for the purpose of getting men to view an intangible military artifact as societies tacit approval. Observe that even the most desperate men, ptsd war vets who succumb to suicide for example will adorn themselves with their military regalia right before ending their lives. It’s likely their way of telling whoever finds them, as well as society at large that they did what society wanted of them, even in death men seem to take pride in their utility. The article continues.

The balance of power shifted in eastern Syria in 2014. After ISIS took over the Iraqi city of Mosul, the group had renewed enthusiasm and new American-made weapons abandoned by the Iraqi army when it broke ranks and collapsed in cowardice. ISIS quickly took over eastern Syria and began its reign of terror. Mohammed, Ahmed and other boys who worked with the rebels went into hiding. “I stayed at home for seven months,” Mohammed said. “Later on, ISIS started arresting members of the Free (Syrian) Army. One of the detainees told them that I was also member.” Mohammed didn’t know he’d been informed on until a group of ISIS fighters showed up at his door to seize him. Ahmed managed to escape eastern Syria when ISIS moved in, but found himself in an unfamiliar part of the country without friends, money or options. “ISIS guaranteed if we returned, they would guarantee our safety,” Ahmed said. “I needed to see my family. (ISIS) said if I go back, give up my weapon and that I wouldn’t be harmed.” He took ISIS at its word and returned to eastern Syria. After Mohammed was discovered and arrested, he was locked in an ISIS jail for two months. He says he was in a room with 75 other boys and men. He says they were all tortured savagely, beating his shins with bats and applying electric shocks to his genitals. “Many people died there. No water, no electricity. They provided water twice a day. We used the toilet once a day,” Mohammed said. … After being tortured, Mohammed was released from prison and also sentenced to repent by going to the ISIS indoctrination school. But Mohammed was convinced that if he went to the school, he’d be sent to the front lines to die or used as a suicide bomber. Mohammed decided to try to escape with a group of friends. One of them turned him in. ‘This is the judgment of God’

Within a few hours, Mohammed was brought before an ISIS judge. His crime was trying to escape ISIS-held areas, thereby choosing to leave the realm of “true Islam” for the land of the infidels, which ISIS considers everywhere else. “He said to me ‘This is the judgment of God. You were going to the land of the infidels… so you are like them. Your leg and arm must be cut off.'”

Yes men and even boys that do not display utility in the form of signing up to be cannon fodder in wars that women will never participate in should be immobilized, by forcible amputation if necessary. A man or boy who wishes to use his body for himself is an “infidel”, or rather, the abrahamic way of saying “non-gynocentric”. In a way I’m reminded of when an unstable lover kills his/her significant other because if they “cant have them no-one can”. Our society wants male utility, but it wants it under very controlled conditions, in western civilization we choose to forego the barbarism of forced amputation, opting instead for “monetary immobilization” of men who refuse to rent out their labor for the good of others at expense to himself.

If a western man cant pay child support we immobilize him by taking his passport, imprisoning him or garnishing his wages. We also relegate him to the societal status of “deadbeat” while we tax men to support “heroic” single mothers.

The punishment was carried out the next day. What Mohammed described is graphic and may be difficult to read, but it demonstrates ISIS’s systemic brutality against those who oppose it, including young boys. The “chopping” ritual is carried out in a carnival-like atmosphere with an assembled crowd cheering and jeering as the condemned are brought to a city square. A section of honor in the square is reserved for the children of foreign fighters. The sons of foreign fighters are expected to cheer and jeer the loudest. They’re being trained, both Ahmed and Mohammed say, to be elite members of ISIS’s next generation of suicide bombers and foreign terrorists. Sometimes the sons of foreign fighters carry out executions themselves, erasing their respect for human life while they’re still impressionable. Mohammed’s punishment was to have his opposing limbs cut off: his right hand (considered in Islamic culture to the “clean” hand) and his left foot. ISIS attempts to make the horrific ritual appear hygienic. The ISIS members who held Mohammed’s limbs in place wore surgical gloves and squirted iodine on his hand and foot. Mohammed says he was given an injection. He doesn’t know what it was but says he was told it would calm him down. ISIS members tied Mohammed’s arm and leg with tourniquets to cut off the blood flow to his hand and foot. The purpose of the amputations is not to kill the victim, but maim him forever. The tourniquets were left on for about 15 minutes. Then, Mohammed’s arm was stretched out on a block of wood. A large meat cleaver was placed on top of his wrist at the point where the cut would be made. A man with a mallet smashed the back of the cleaver so it would cut straight through bone and flesh. Mohammed and three others identified the man who carried out the punishment as an Iraqi from ISIS’s “chopping committee” known by the nickname “The Bulldozer.” … After indoctrination school, Ahmed thought he’d finally paid his dues and that ISIS would make good on its promise of amnesty. Unlike Mohammed, Ahmed was cooperating. But ISIS kept adding demands. As the brainwashing course was wrapping up, Ahmed was told he was now an ISIS fighter and was being sent to the frontline. With no idea where he was going, Ahmed was loaded on a bus and taken to Anbar province in Iraq. He managed to escape from there to Turkey. Ahmed says ISIS repeatedly tried to convince him and the other boys at indoctrination school to become suicide bombers. Some agreed. “They asked us, “Who wants to be a martyr?’ One of the boys who was with us, he was 12 years old. He blew himself up in an area called Haditha (in Iraq),” Ahmed said. Mohammed and Ahmed both say ISIS is trying to create a fresh crop of radicals by targeting boys. “They are fooling children with money,” Mohammed said. “They are fooling them to bomb themselves. They give a boy some money, or a bicycle, and after two days they take him in a car to bomb himself. They target children the most. They focus on children, because children are unaware of anything in this life.” Ahmed today is trying to make his way in Turkey, one of around two million Syrian refugees in the country. Mohammed doesn’t have enough money for the medical and psychological care he badly needs. His brother and the family friend who nurses him do the best they can with the help of a few generous Turks. Mohammed was disfigured by ISIS only two weeks ago. He cries every time his bandages are changed. He has nightmares, wets his bed and gets confused. Last week, he forgot his foot was missing and fell down the stairs of the building where he is living. His brother takes him outside every day to get some fresh air. “I can only sleep after I take sleeping pills,” Mohammed said. “The most difficult time is when I go to sleep. The pain starts. In the daytime, I sit in the street and watch the people passing by to forget the pain.” But Mohammed says what hurt more than falling down the stairs was when a Turkish man approached him and gave him 50 Turkish lira, the equivalent of about 15 dollars. Mohammed wasn’t begging. He was just sitting his wheelchair, as he says, to forget the pain. When he looked at the money in his lap, he started to cry. It dawned on him that he’d become what in Arabic is called a “miskeen,” someone who deserves pity. That’s not how Mohammed sees himself, but he realized that’s how others see him.



There is something to be said here about the developing child and adolescent brain, take for instance this image.

A boy wielding an ak-47 stands above a teddy bear, signifying his child hood, with a massive bullet wound to it’s head. Innocence lost, this is the first casualty of child warfare. In this loss a major part of the development of a human being is lost forever. Evolutionarily speaking there is a very important point between human infancy and adolescence, childhood in other words, in which the human being must be allowed to “play” which is really just the act of exploring and learning under a different name.

This is an integral part of our ability as a species to think outside of the box, and to understand abstract concepts. We’ve done away with child labor in the west because for the most part we’ve amassed enough wealth to extend to our children the luxury of not having to go into the workplace at 6 or 7 years of age. But this isn’t so much a luxury as it is an investment. Sending a large number of overworked mentally truncated adults who could never enjoy a childhood is bound to suppress their capacity for innovative and outside of the box thinking. Surely if you take two genius twins and allow one a childhood while damning the other to hard labor starting at the age of six, which do you think would be the more intelligent of the two?

Prolonged childhood is simply good for our species, it is well known that certain great ape species have neotenous features at birth which later fade away during adulthood;

Our species however retains these neotenous characteristics throughout adulthood and comparatively speaking we’ve evolved the ability to give birth to infants that are much less developed at the time of birth in comparison to our ape counterparts. The advantages of having your offspring outside of the womb and interacting with the environment, are clear… infants can begin learning earlier as well as learning at a time where their brains are still essentially wiring themselves.

The longer we can allow for playing and adventuring in our young, the more they soak up information with their fresh child brain before ripening into the creatures of habit that are adult human beings. It is a major investment in our species to allow for as long a child hood as (reasonably) possible. Surely though at some point we must kick the chicks out of the nest as it were and hope they take off and fly on their own.

The agreed upon age of eighteen is generally the standard in the west. I’m of the opinion that even at this age, human adolescence may not be completely over, although I do not have the proof to back up my claim. If I ever have children however, I will make sure that they aren’t unceremoniously kicked out to fend for themselves the moment the clock strikes midnight marking their eighteenth go around, but if it is at all cruel to send your own offspring into the “real world” before they’ve lived their first two decades, it is immensely more cruel to send “our boys” to war at such a tender age.

As you’ve read above though, we do not even wait that long in many instances, at least for boys we don’t. We’re more than happy to allow thirty year old women to act like petulant children, but for boys, we expect them to grow up and grow up fast. The following video is one of Hitler during world war two. Hitler, at this point knowing that the war was lost, still made his way to award the hitler youth depicted with the iron cross, another useless bauble paid for with the blood of the male sex for their efforts. These boys, the oldest amongst them could not have been older than 16 or 17, the youngest amongst them could have been twelve. And yet, Hitler still saw fit to send them to their likely certain deaths. Watch below how they pridefully talk of thier exploits, and let it sink in gentleman.