Afghanistan - A Child's Graveyard

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This paper looks at the way in which the ongoing war in Afghanistan has effected the country's children. It shows how 25% of the children die before they reach they age of 5, and provides reasons for this shocking fact - starvation, land mines, bombs, being used in war as young soldiers and being orphaned as babies. The paper focuses on the use of minors as soldiers, why this is such a common practice in Afghanistan and what can be done to prevent this phenomenon.

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"War has existed as long as recorded history. Evidence has been found to suggest that organized warfare occurs even among non-human primates. According to the biological ecologist Michael Ghiglieri, "the happy-go-lucky chimpanzee has turned out to be the most lethal ape, an organized, cooperative warrior." (In Bloom, 29) According to many theorists, war is built into the fundamental nature of humanity. It is an evolutionary drive nearly as strong as that to procreate. Even if one chooses to ignore such biological imperatives, the causes for war would still abound. The motivations for war are nearly universal. The Taliban fight for the same reasons that the Americans fight: a righteous sense of having been wronged, a need to preserve their social order, revenge for their loved ones killed, and the belief that their one nation under God is the only nation under God. War is, above all, inevitable."

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