On Saturday night, an ISIS bomber blew himself up along with 51 other people at a Kurdish wedding party and Ghazietem in Turkey.

According to the Turkish government, the suicide bomber was 12 to 14 years old.

Then, on Sunday night in Kerk, Iraqi police tackled a would-be suicide bomber, a 12-year-old boy.

They stripped him of his suicide belt.

According to the UN, thousands of children

have been kidnapped in Iraq with many boys recruited or pressured into suicide bombing.

Just a few weeks ago, tape emerged of a Palestinian man, sending his toddler son at soldiers.

The toddler carried a Palestinian flag. The kid, three years old, also carried rocks. The father

urged the boy to throw them at the soldiers. Instead, the Israeli troops gave over and gave the boy a high five.

Jihadists routinely recruit children for military purposes. During the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian regime recruited and used thousands of children in battle as human shields and reportedly to clear minefields.

Saddam Hussein also used to use kids in his army. Terrorist groups from

Hamas to Khazbalah routinely trained small children in terrorist methods. Westerners simply

can't understand the barbaric willingness of jihadist enemies to sacrifice their own kids

to murder other people. But that's the nature of this battle, and that's why it's so unbelievably

foolhardy of the left to assume that women

and teens can't be radicalized, to assume jihadists are mainly concerned about economic immobility,

to differentiate between the battles fought by Israel against jihadism and the battles fought

by all the other Western countries against those same jihadists.

Jihadists are willing to sacrifice their kids, not because they're looking for new sanitation jobs, but because they have a philosophy of life and death that differs from that of the West. Chahmas routinely proclaims, we love death more than you love life, and so they're willing to kill their own kids to fight the infidel. Meanwhile, the West struggles with how to deal with the fact that we love jihadist kids more than their own parents do.

That's an intractable philosophic problem.

It's not going to be solved with pretty Obama turns of phrase or redistribution of income.

It's only going to be solved by a complete and utter defeat of jihadist ideology and the killing of as many jihadists as humanly possible.

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