Child torture

Sometimes I exaggerate to make a point and some years ago when it was popular to say that the United States should not intervene in other countries just because we don’t understand their culture, I made the following case. Suppose we saw on the news that some countries were tossing babies into the air and catching them on their bayonets, would we be justified in interfering? As wild as this accusation was, it has now come close to reality. The United Nations reports that children are tortured and sold as slaves. Some mentally challenged children are trained as suicide bombers and even reports that children are buried alive and some decapitated. In a report issued Wednesday in Geneva, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said it has received reports of "several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive. Is there ever a time when civilized societies must step in! While the numbers are not as great, this is sounding as bad as the Nazi treatment of Jews and the world vowed not to let this happen again.