That poverty is used by those in power to recruit soldiers to protect their wealth and financial interests is a recurring theme, not (only) in the distant past, but it is in full swing today. Low level drug dealers, ISIS fighters, piracy... Any one of us caught in that soul-wearying predicament might become victims to this system. The problem is the system, not the people (unwittingly) caught up in it.
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They intentionally make children orphans so that they can raise them and educate them. Most people can't imagine the number of street children in Iraq. It's heartbreaking.