Posted on 09/21/2015 9:42:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
The New York Times published a story today about U.S. policy in Afghanistan to turn a blind eye to “bacha bazi,” or “boy play.” You see, although Afghans stone to death women for adultery and beat people to death for blasphemy, keeping young boys chained up as sex slaves is an old and respected tribal custom. And our troops have been strictly warned not to intervene when senior Afghan military and police commanders want to indulge in their taste for pederasty.
Afghanistan is not only a military quagmire in which we are pointlessly bogged down. It is a moral cesspool, and being there at all is degrading and demoralizing for our brave soldiers and it is shameful that we are propping up that country’s corrupt and morally bankrupt ruling class. Our war in Afghanistan is probably militarily unwinnable. But were we to somehow succeed we would be keeping in power a wretched gang of thieves, drug dealers, rapists, child killers and pedophiles. If the alternative to these mutts is the Taliban, I say let the Taliban have Afghanistan and be rid of that miserable excuse of a country.
The story relates how two Green Berets, Captain Dan Quinn and Sergeant Charles Martland, tried to reign in the rampant child sexual abuse in the district where they were stationed. They were horrified when they received reports that a senior Afghan police commander had raped a 14 year old girl, whom he had spotted in a field and decided to assault her. The Times’ story continues:
“Soon another commander absconded with his men’s wages. Mr. Quinn said he later heard that the commander had spent the money on dancing boys. Another commander murdered his 12-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing for having kissed a boy. “There were no repercussions,” Mr. Quinn recalled.
In September 2011, an Afghan woman, visibly bruised, showed up at an American base with her son, who was limping. One of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had abducted the boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chained to his bed, the woman explained. When she sought her son’s return, she herself was beaten. Her son had eventually been released, but she was afraid it would happen again, she told the Americans on the base.”
When Quinn and Martland confronted Abdul, the commander laughed in their faces. They threw him to the ground to emphasize the point that they took the allegations seriously. As a result, Quinn was relieved of his command and left the Army, and Martland is being pressured to leave as well. Their crime, as it were, was trying to stop the systematic rape of children in their district, and being insufficiently sensitive to the dignity of a child rapist, albeit a child rapist with high police rank.
Before our occupation of the country, Afghanistan was governed by the Taliban, a backward, vicious bunch of religious fanatics who overthrew a criminally corrupt, vicious, backward government of warlords. Now we’re back to another criminally corrupt, vicious, backward government, except now the corruption is hyper-fueled by massive sums of U.S. aid money. Before the Taliban, a corrupt government minister could maybe buy a used Mercedes. Now he can buy a multi-million dollar villa in a fashionable neighborhood in Dubai, thanks to the U.S. taxpayer.
The government in Kabul is losing the war, and is doomed to fall to the Taliban when as our troops depart. The Taliban are brutal, savage fanatics determined to re-impose their medieval Islamicist theocracy on Afghanistan. That will be an unfortunate outcome for many decent people in that country. But they themselves have shown little will to resist Taliban rule. And in the meantime, we’re there spending American treasure and sacrificing infinitely more precious American blood to prop up a bunch of child rapists and grubbily greedy government ministers.
It’s time to go. Our only presence in Afghanistan should be regular B-52 overflights to remind the Taliban of the consequences of harboring terrorists, as they did Osama bin Laden before 9-11.
I suggest it is time we start executing these savages for their crimes against young boys and women. Either one of two things will eventually happen:
1. They will run out of men.
2. They will stop this crap.
But that’s a fantasy world I guess.
Well maybe we could make Afghanistan the 52nd. state.
We should leave. They are. They are all headed for Germany.
Another commander murdered his 12-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing for having kissed a boy...
here we hand out condoms to 12 year olds and say “have fun”.
Two sick extremes, but at least in the second one, no one dies.
Muslims are savages, even Bill Maher, who i HATE, got it right the other day.
Sometimes I wonder if bin laden didn’t want this exact result, invading worthless countries and igniting civil war while piling on debt.
And Saudi Arabia, the true villain laughs all the way to the bank as it builds mosques in America.
soebarkha very much enjoys that our military there has been emasculated.
What happens when these poor boys grow up?
How can a ‘religion’ that CONDEMNS GAY PEOPLE TO DEATH have so many men who rape little boys and rape males they attack, like our ambassador.
No thanks! California is bad enough.
Obummer sodomizes everything.
“As a result, Quinn was relieved of his command and left the Army, and Martland is being pressured to leave as well.”
Welcome to the Army in the age of Obama.
Raping little boys-—what a fine religion of peace. No wonder hell is awaiting these cretins final home. Sickening...
Defoliate all their crops.
Poison all their wells.
Dynamite every bridge, damn and power plant.
THEN leave.
Nuremberg Trials
Under ARTICLE 6 (c) Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
ARTICLE 7
The official position of defendants, whether as Heads of State or responsible officials in Government departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment.
ARTICLE 8
The fact that the defendant acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior shall not free him from responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal determine that justice so requires.
& they’re bringing their lovely “culture” to a neighborhood near you soon! The EU & their bleeding hearts will see the results of their good deeds soon enough.
58, Oshiitehead said there were 57 during the election.
Ohh Boo Hoo! Mark Nuckols has discovered that Afghanistan is a rotten place full of rotten people, so he wants us to leave, instanter. Yet we have a strategic goal in Afghanistan that we would jeopardize if we left precipitously: that Afghanistan not again become a sanctuary for Muslim terrorist training camps, such as led to the 9/11 attacks. That is why we must remain in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is not only a military quagmire in which we are pointlessly bogged down. It is a moral cesspool
So our soldiers are getting a taste of the future America?
Homosexual marriage is now legal and pushed by our Government.
Elementary schools are removing male/female signs from bathrooms so that “transgender” students can feel comfortable using them.
Adults are sending children as young as 6 years old to school dressed as the sex the child or the parent thinks the child is. Yeah I think we got our own cesspool brewing right here at home......
If you read the story of Josiah Harlan (the man who would be king), you realize that they have been this way for millenia, and nothing short of killing every one of them would ever straighten it out.
It sure looks that way
Afghanistan is still a terrorist training camp. Hell soldiers in Afghan uniforms attack and kill our troops.
We have no strategic goal anymore. In fact we have no goal. We are not fighting a war. They are but we are not. We could end this in a year if we had leaders and more people with spines as citizens. But sadly we are not our grandfathers generation. We have no leaders and we have a spineless population...
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