Something About Teenaged Soldiers

The UN is currently holding a conference in France to to develop strategies to prevent the recruitment of child and teen aged soldiers. This practice, according to the conference, happens in Asian and Latin American countries as well as Haiti, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Liberia. On the same news day, The UK admitted it had sent up to 15 underage soldiers to Iraq in the past 2 months, violating a U.N. protocol on children's rights. It's funny how the UN was ready to blast these under-developed countries for this practice while it turns out a developed country like the UK is doing the same thing. If 2007 doesn't bring an end to the war in Iraq, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. lowered it's recruitment age.