The Taliban"s usage of child suicide bombers in this video cannot be excused by any moral relativism

Well this debate is about to round up and it's definitely been an interesting one. I'll do a summarized recap of my points from all these rounds, along with adding in a few new ones. 1) As Americans, we cannot pass judgement on the Taliban's decisions to use children as suicide bombers. Their culture is so far different from ours that we cannot hope to place ourselves in their shoes in order to understand, therefore we cannot judge them. 2) Their religious and political ideals are one in the same. You cannot differentiate between the Muslim faith and the government because they are irrevocably connected through hundreds of years of Sharia Law. Their religious and governmental goals, therefore, are the same: to oust the infidels from their homeland at any cost. One of those costs are child suicide bombers. If we were in the same position as them, ie invaded by foreign forces, we would feel just as desperate to get those people out. 3) They are not the first, nor will they be the last, to make use of child soldiers. Throughout history, we ourselves have drafted America's youth into fighting in our wars. If we've done it before, what makes us able to judge the Taliban? 4) Proponents claim that the children are too young to fully accept and understand the situation they've been put in and that it's cruel. I'm not denying the cruelty of it all, though I wish to point out that we do the same to our 16 and 17 year-olds who sign up to join the military. As teenagers, they lack the impulse control that can prevent a lifetime of regret, and the military takes full advantage of this. The JROTC is even worse in this respect in that it glamorizes the military life and conditions a child to think that the military is the place for them. While this is different from strapping a bomb to them directly, the American military sets them on almost the same path. 5) The Taliban are not mentally sick, they know exactly what they are doing and that is simply how things are for them. 6) There's no absolutely way to know whether all the children are lied to about the bombs strapped to their bodies or that they go along with the plan in order to fulfill the expectations of them. It can just as easily be said that the child honestly wants to serve their God in a way they've been taught, along with protecting his country and people from the American forces. 7) It may be immoral to harm someone else for you own good, but that happens everyday in America, whether it's street violence or white-collar crime. 8) They feel absolutely justified in their actions, since they feel their God and their Prophet have been insulted. The only way they know how to respond is through a violent reaction. 9) "When I look up there's a tiger sitting. When I look down there is a river flowing." The Taliban make it clear that they're aware of how heinous their choices may be, but that they are willing to make horrific decisions at any cost, so long as their way of life feels threatened. 10) We ourselves are not exempt from taking innocent lives while trying to take out our enemies. We killed a wedding party's march with a drone a couple months back, thinking we were attacking a terrorist caravan. If it's morally wrong to teach children to kill themselves and others via suicide bombings, then it's equally wrong to teach them that it's okay to take out "the bad guys" at the risk of accidentally killing those who were innocent. We cannot judge their actions by trying to justify our own. 11) There is never a guarantee that a child will survive warfare, so while the process of how they die may be different, the end result will be the same: the child will die. There is absolutely no guarantee that a kid would survive a gunfight in combat, just like they have no guarantee they'll survive a suicide bombing. In a warzone, everyone is a soldier, which means that if a child is out there fighting, they are definitely going to be killed. Being able to defend oneself does not mean that you'll survive the fight. Those are all the points I could come up with in favor of my argument that the child suicide bombers actually can be excused by moral relativism.