said by Ian1:How can one be a "child soldier" in a war that doesn't, apparently, exist? You see the problem with this illogical train of reasoning?
I see the problem with your illogical train of reasoning, as to follow it would mean that Canadian Forces members who were in Afghanistan weren't soldiers either.
Perhaps we should use the politically correct (to go along with the nomenclature used in Gitmo) term off "underage illegal enemy combatant".