Many countries use child soldiers. The United States Congress, in 2007, passed The Child Soldier Prevention Act which calls for sanctions against countries that recruit and enslave children for their militaries, some as young as 7 years old.

The United States Government is prohibited by law from giving military aid to countries that utilize such heinous abuses of children. However, the president can grant exemptions.

The Obama administration, in fact, has waived sanctions against four countries that practice such abuses. These include Chad, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.

You just can’t clean this one up: Obama is abetting the abuse of children.

And yet, folks like Jesse Jackson still support Obama. The Democratic Party does not want to purge him.

It reminds me of the time when there was a segment, I believe on the show “60 Minutes,” called “Point-Counter Point.”

There would be a conservative debating a liberal. Nicholas Von Hoffman (the liberal) was thrown off the air for his frank comments regarding the Nixon scandal.

Von Hoffman said something to the effect that Nixon was like the dead rat under the kitchen sink, and no one in the family wanted to grab it by the tail and take it out to the garbage.

Many of us, including me, were exulted by the election of President Obama. He wooed us with the slogan “hope and change.” Well, there has not been much change, and little reason for hope.

We need to cycle through the five stages of grief and come to acceptance: Someone has to go back under the kitchen sink.

Nelson Strasser lives in Lakeport, Calif.