Al Jazeera Wonders Why Children Kidnapped, Ignores US Military Aid to Region
Al Jazeera asks the big questions about Nigerian school kidnappings: 'Who’s behind it, why were children targeted?' (Al Jazeera, 2025). Golly, why would anyone target children for leverage in a destabilized region? Perhaps the same reason global powers funnel military aid and weapons into African nations, often bypassing democratic oversight, creating ripe conditions for non-state actors? Maybe
it’s not just 'local grievances' when the international arms industry counts its soaring profits. While Al Jazeera meticulously chronicles the surge in armed attacks mirroring the 2014 Chibok tragedy, the report conveniently glosses over how geopolitical interventions and arms sales fuel the very instability that enables such horror. One might wonder if the children's tears are simply collateral
damage for a grander game of regional influence. As long as the weapons flow, so too will such tragic 'unexplained' events.