By Steve Otto
While I have never endorsed the soldiers for the Islamic State (ISIS) I don’t blame them for rebelling against their captors in Syria. They have been treated like crap from their US puppets in both Syria and Iraq. In Iraq, during the war with ISIS, they threw captured prisoners off of roofs to kill them and save on ammunition. People were also executed or jailed for just simply working for the government of ISIS.
According to the New York Times:
An American-backed militia that has waged four days of deadly battles to dislodge Islamic State fighters from a prison in northeast Syria warned on Sunday that the jihadists were using more than 600 boys detained in the complex as “human shields.”
The mainstream US news media claims that ISIS fighters are using children as human shields. But that raises an interesting question= What are children doing in a prison anyway? They seem to be children of the ISIS fighters. Why does the US and its allies prison children?
There is no excuse for imprisoning children. That in itself is a crime against humanity. And no matter what the ISIS people believed in or did, they don’t deserve the crappy treatment they have been given in the Middle East. There are very few good guys in the Middle East today and imperialism of all kind is alive and well. This is a very sad set of events.
