Although child soldiers have been programmed since birth, to be fair that just means they are more dangerous than anyone ever …show more content…
“Khadr’s father took him to visit al Qaeda leaders when he was 10 and to a military training camp when he was 15.” (Andrea Prasow, page 3) What this evidence suggests is that some of these children were, and are, influenced by family to join a military when they are younger than the age of 18. There are cruel man and women in this world and they will use anyone, even children, to get what they want. People have chances to take second chances that have been laid out in front of them, but they decide not to take the chance. “We only had two things to survive [an AK-47 and a big package of cocaine]” says a former child soldier named Ishmael. He knows what it’s like to get a second chance from the horrors that he had caused. The world today is a jungle and we as people get a second