helen sadowski: You've fallen into the trap of believing that child soldiers are immune from being held culpable for their actions. No such blanket exception applies. Combatants 15 years of age and over can be treated in the same fashion as any other combatants who commit war crimes excepting that they can't be subjected to life-long incarceration or execution. I don't doubt that Khadr was a child soldier, but that's not the real issue at stake here. Also, I believe Ms. Macklin is a lawyer and a law professor. As such, her interpretation of the circumstances is open to challenge. A lawyer once told me that if you put the same facts in front of five lawyers you can easily get five different opinions.