The young are driven by sentiment, while cynical and power-hungry interests use them for cannon fodder.
She worries about them taking the subway at night, let alone becoming cannon fodder.
In time he introduces me to several ex-gang members who are the cannon fodder of the drug war.
At first the movie takes an ironic stance toward Heinlein's angry militarism, with images of beautiful kids as blissed-out cannon fodder.
Still, I told him, I'm not sure how those who oppose comprehensive reform but support turning illegal immigrants into cannon fodder go about squaring that circle.
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They felt then-coach Graham Henry was only using them as cannon fodder and Jenkins knows that every member of the 44-man squad must be kept happy this time round.
After all, the Salafi strain of Islam that gave birth to Al Qaeda has its seat there and most of Al Qaeda's cannon fodder seems to come from Saudi Arabia.
"I think cannon fodder is a fair way to characterize them, " said Eisenstadt, who noted the militia seems to emerge during the initial moments of an uprising as the Revolutionary Guard and law enforcement forces organized their reaction.
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As Senator Jon Kyl (Republican of Arizona) will demonstrate in yet another congressional hearing on Wednesday, the kingdom continues to contribute vast sums and cannon fodder to the terrorist organizations we are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, including in the United States.
Whether or not our troops were treated like cannon fodder back in the day and are treated better now, the point still remains that their core mission is to kill, and this leads to all kinds of mental and physical problems down the road.
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The chicken-hawks that populate the Congress clearly prefer to force private businessmen to booby trap their own hiring process, harming a lot of innocents in the process, while cowardly lawmakers remain safely in the rear with a gun at the backs of the private firms they commandeer to use as cannon fodder on the front lines of their mismanaged war on illegals.
It should also be noted that, until the U.S. military became an all-volunteer force, it compensated and treated its service members more like cannon-fodder.
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For months, he has been warning that the Islamist recruitment and training pipeline is capable of generating jihadist cannon-fodder faster than U.S. and allied forces can kill them.
By applying business techniques to the sport actuarially measuring tactics, hiring underpriced older players and so on the Oakland Athletics turned themselves from cannon-fodder into American League divisional finalists in 2001 and 2002.
Their provision of money, training and cannon-fodder for the 14-year insurrection against Indian rule in Kashmir brought misery to that land, put Pakistan on the wrong side in the war against terror, and utterly failed in its objectives.
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