My view on Child Soldiers Essay

Child soldiers are an issue worldwide. The have been many article written on how some author's feel about child soldiers. and how they believe that the U.S. should not take part in capturing Kony. Many also believe that child soldiers are perpetrators of war. But they are wrong.

Currently worldwide, there are over 30,000 child soldiers. They can be found in the places such as Colombia, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Gaza, and Palestine. Those are only a few countries where child soldiers are located. A rebel leader named Kony has been abducting children from the ages as young as 5. If they are not abducted, they are forced to kill their own family members or the rebel leader would kill them. And that's unfair and wrong for children to have to experience shooting and killing someone else to keep their own life. Girls also get forced to join the armed forces and rebel groups to become sex slaves or cooks. And for one thing, thats illegal. No one even has slaves anymore, and that is violating many of our rights. Clearly in these foreign countries women and girls don't get the same opportunities and rights as women and girls in our country. Boys in foreign countries also get drugged to dumb down their senses and they also are forced to drink alcohol. This is a bad thing for the children because if they lose some of their brain cells, it doesn't give them enough power to think for themselves. Like to really think whether or not they want to shoot someone or just plain down right kill them.

Some author's opinions were very harsh on the fact of child soldiers. In the article "problem with Kony 2012" the author Emily Merlino talks about how Jason Russel, the founder of the move to stop Kony, has a goal to "intensify pressure on the U.S. government to make sure Kony is brought to justice this year." She believes that this is not the right way to go about the issue. She thinks that it is a wrong decision to let the U.S. take matters into their own hands. She starts to explain later on in the article that by sending U.S. troops to a foreign country, such as Uganda, it will cost our government a lot of money. It will also harm civilian lives in Uganda, when our military goes out to arrest ONE wanted guy she says. But it would actually be helpful for the U.S. to take matters into their own hands because we have a larger army and that means more people can be on the case to defeat Kony, save all of the child soldiers, bring them back to their families, and stop all of the rebel leaders that follow in Kony's steps.

In my opinion I completely disagree with what author Emily Merlino has to say. I think that the U.S. should get involved and it doesn't matter if they already have troops in Yeman, Afghanistan, and Libya because it's never to late to ask got more people to join the force to do one big mission. And that is to capture a very wanted man. I also believe that if people are willing to protest and get Kony known so that we the people ould make a change than Obama would be kind hearted enough to not even care how much it costs to stop Kony. Because you're trying to stop a very wanted man that is trying to get himself known worldwide.

In conclusion, I believe that child soldiers should be helped by the U.S. government and Obama should definitely take part in this project. Child soldiers shouldn't have to be forced to do things that they want to do. Such as taking drugs and shooting people and drinking alcohol. It's unfair for young girls or women to have to be brought into a scene where they get sexually abused, and boys are forced to kill or watch their friends and family members die right before their eyes. That's not the life a kid from age 5 and up should have to experience. And I think this is just inappropriate, sad, and very disturbing.