Dean James III% AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a sickening problem in Afghanistan, particularly among Afghan military and police. The practice is called bacha bazi, which means “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases.
The New York Times reports:
The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children.
“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”
The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it.
The Army has relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has consequently left the military.
Rep. Duncan Hunter told Fox News, “It’s sad to think that a child rapist is put above one of our elite military operators. Sergeant Martland was left with no other choice but to intervene in a bad situation. The Army should stand up for what’s right and should not side with a corrupt Afghan police officer.”
And Gregory Buckley Sr., the father of a Marine shot and killed by a young Afghan boy during an insider attack, believes this very policy led to his son’s death.
Unfortunately, the liberal practice of tolerating and respecting every other cultural norm besides our own has taken hold in the military brass, who have instructed their personnel to tolerate all Afghan customs, even if they are clearly immoral or inhumane.
“You cannot try to impose American values and American norms onto the Afghan culture because they’re completely different… We can report and we can encourage them,” declared Army Col. Steve Johnson. “We do not have any power or the ability to use our hands to compel them to be what we see as morally better.”
If Col. Johnson cannot understand that there isn’t much that isn’t “morally better” than child rape, he’s a disgrace to the uniform and an embarrassment to America. Shame on him.
Source Article from http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2015/09/22/alert-u-s-military-members-ordered-to-ignore-sickening-crimes-we-can-hear-them-screaming-but-cant-do-anything/
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