Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

This idea of "he's too young" seems to be a modern misconception as
history shows may instances of young people doing things that they would
be considered "too young" to do in this modern age.

This is related to some stupid religious nonsense that caused America to
stretch out the "age of consent" back when the city people forced the
mountain people to stop arranged marriages between old men and young girls
just into puberty.

There's some kind of religious guilt trip the control freaks on top of the
pyramid use to keep them in control (and keep the money flowing up the
stack, of course).

Hell, in many parts of the world, any girl 16 and not already married are
considered a family shame.

This "too young" nonsense spreads, curiously, to all facets of American
life EXCEPT where it serves the elite masters' purposes, such as 18 year
olds used as cannon fodder in wars, for instance. 18 year old males are
plenty old enough to hold automatic weapons to kill the elite's enemies,
but not old enough to drink beer without worrying about being arrested, a
really stupid concept to be sure.

Using teenagers as warriors goes way back. I can see their reasoning as
children, including 18-year-olds, will still blindly follow orders, where,
if they waited until they were 21 they'd start thinking too independently
and might refuse to participate in genocide of foreign populations (Iraq,
Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Vietnam, etc.)

This kid at 16 is less than 2 years away from becoming a government-trained
military killer the Illuminati can use as Israel's proxy army. He's plenty
old to go sailing off on his own, now.