suffering and abandonment for a teenager who was a child soldier and should never have been pushed into the middle of a war in the first place.
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the authors, Dallaire and Neve forget to balance their
sentimentality
with some balance 
that Khadr also was a  maker of roadside  bombs (IED)
and threw a grenade
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is that something a "child" does ?
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rather deplorable to use reason without common sense