Comment Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (Score 1) 402
I really don't think the children are so dumb that they don't realize standing next to a missile is a safe location.
Children are far, FAR easier to convince to do anything and to buy into any exaggerated story, be it patriotic, religious, heroic or simply "cool", than adults.
Regardless of the flag.
On a side note...
Just this morning I read on a local, Bosnian, portal about a "15-year-old Bosnian citizen" being killed in Gaza.
I won't go into the whole citizenship thing, but let's just say that the kid and his father who was quoted in the text are about as Bosnian in name and appearance as are those Chinese who live and work in Bosnia.
Probably a little less as Chinese are currently living and working here and not in Middle East.
But the point of the story is father's comment.
How "his son's blood was very costly, but for the precious Palestine, no cost is too high".
Regardless of the veracity of those words, THAT IS the image and mindset promoted by the Palestinian sources.
Be they establishment's or private.
That is what kids have been taught there for decades now.
Thus, standing GUARD next to a missile for those kids is not dumb but BRAVE AND GLORIOUS.
Feel free to imagine "The Minstrel Boy" playing over this post.