10-year-old Suicide Bomber

[AgnesIO]

As awful and as tragic as this is, I never understand the false compassion that come with issues like this that we should care or act more because something if overseas rather than in our own country or a neighbouring country. The fact is that it is a silly view to take, unless you are an academic or politician who doesn't believe in borders and is a naive internationalist. The sad fact is that it doesn't surprise us because it is in Africa, and it is the way things are done in Africa.

I do wish stupid multicultural non-nations like Nigeria were finally broken up though, it might bring some peace to some areas of that dark continent.

I feel just as bad, actually worse, about events like this than I do about those in Paris. That isn't false compassion; I just do (and I don't know why).

Nigeria would arguably be better broken up, given the army's obvious inability to actually deal with the situation in northern states.

[October]

Haven't read through this whole thread, but AFAIK, the girl was an unwilling or unknowing participant. The bomb was strapped to her by someone else, and it wasn't taken off in time.

[AgnesIO]

Haven't read through this whole thread, but AFAIK, the girl was an unwilling or unknowing participant. The bomb was strapped to her by someone else, and it wasn't taken off in time.

Sorry for sarcasm, but it kind of has to be put in; you mean a ten-year-old girl didn't build a bomb and decide to blow herself up in a marketplace? Scandalous!