Andrea Mazzarino, How War Targets the Young
America’s forever wars
and their fallout over these last 18 years have been hell for kids. Just ask Ismail or any of the other 56 wounded children who
survived an August 2018 attack on their school bus in northern Yemen by Saudi
planes armed with American weaponry. Of course, you can’t ask the perhaps 40 children who died, thanks to a single 500-pound
laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin. And that was just one example of
the way, in these years, war has torn the lives of children apart across the
Greater Middle East.
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Take, for example,
Iraqi children in a country remade (more accurately, devastated) by the
U.S. invasion of 2003 and everything that followed from it, including the ISIS takeover of major Iraqi cities in 2014. By 2016,
UNICEF reported that “one in every five children in Iraq is
at serious risk of death, injury, sexual violence, and recruitment into armed
groups.” That was 3.6 million children (a jump of 1.3 million in 18 months).
And if you make your focus larger still, UNICEF recently
reported that, thanks to largely war-induced humanitarian crises
across the Middle East and northern Africa, 32 million children need
assistance, 5.8 million of whom are refugees....
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