Posted on 09/21/2015 3:20:23 PM PDT by markomalley
The White House dodged questions Monday about allegations that U.S. military officials are ordering U.S. soldiers to ignore child abuse in Afghanistan committed by Afghan militia, military and police, and instead indicated that those orders reflect Defense Department policy that the White House is not reviewing.
"For the rules of engagement and the kind of structure that's in place to guide the relationship between the United States and Afghan members of the military, I'd refer you to the Department of Defense for that," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Earnest was pressed further to say whether President Obama is looking to review that policy in light of a New York Times story outlining how soldiers were powerless to help child rape victims in Afghanistan, and got in trouble with their superiors if they tried. To that, Earnest said, "Not that I'm aware of."
When asked why questions about preventing child abuse and protecting human rights was being punted to the Pentagon, Earnest said, "Because … you're asking about a policy that governs the conduct of U.S. military personnel in a dangerous place."
The Times story outlined several examples in which U.S. soldiers could hear child rape as it occurred, but were told to ignore these events because it's part of Afghanistan's "culture."
To that, Earnest said the U.S. is urging Afghanistan's leaders to crack down on the commonly accepted practice of allowing adult men to rape boys.
"We continue to urge the Afghan and civil society to protect and support victims and their families, while also strongly encouraging justice and accountability under Afghan law for offenders," Earnest said.
At the Pentagon, spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said there is no policy that prohibits U.S. troops from reporting human rights violations like the ones described in the New York Times article to their chain of command, but that any allegations would be dealt with by local Afghan officials.
"What's talked about in this, while abhorrent, is fundamentally an Afghan law enforcement matter and those are reports that are given to the Afghan government," Davis said.
Davis had no information on the specific case mentioned in the article of a U.S. service member being reprimanded for beating up an Afghan commander who had a child sex slave chained to his bed.
And today Salon had a story declaring that pedophiles aren’t animals.
Imagine the media sh!tstorm if this were happening under an (R) in the WH
It would be the top of the news, 24/7
Instead, the Obama enablers lie by omission.
Disgusting.
This may ‘arouse’ the interest of the new, gay, Secretary of the Army.
Josh Earnest not only eats ****,
he spits it back out at every press conference.
This may ‘arouse’ the interest of the new, gay, Secretary of the Army.
You know that fag is on the first flight to A-Stan to review the situation there.
The way to stop it is for Soldiers and Marines to surreptitiously videotape both, it happening, and then the US Officers ordering Soldiers and Marines to ignore it. Build a body of tapes, then release them one at a time like just happened to planned parenthood.
Time to plan to fight back asymmetrically against the US government’s blessing of child molestation.
GoPro cams and Social media could hit them a death blow to this policy.
Every once in a while it is useful to remember that Barack Hussein Obama authored this literary work:
“Pop”
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I’m sure he’s unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He’s so unhappy, to which he replies...
But I don’t care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; ‘cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop’s black-framed glasses
And know he’s laughing too.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/prespoetry/bo.html
The “poetry” Stalin and Pol Pot wrote wasn’t anywhere near that creepy.
I HATE Obama and am beginning to lose respect for the military that would ALLOW this to happen because “they are JUST following orders”!!!
NO! NO! NO! They’d get life in the brig for producing child pornography.
That is a terrible idea.
BINGO!!!!! If ONLY we had people that weren’t AFRAID of Losing their Jobs!! They AREn”T AFRAID of Losing LIMBS, but they ARE AFRAID OF LOSING THEIR JOBS!!
All that is required for evil to flourish is to have Josh Earnest as your press secretary.
YUK!! That’s Obama Poem about either his Communist Grandfather or the REAL Communist PEDAPHILE, Marshall Davis!! SO which one of these CREEPY men had BLACK RIMMED GLASSES???? THAT will tell you which one SEXUALLY ABUSED HIM!!!
That is why I have kept reposting the thing over the years. It is a salient fact in understanding him and is hidden in plain sight.
Is the media going to ask Hillary about the rapes going on in Afghanistan during her watch as Secretary of State? Let’s see who the first GOP candidate brings it up.
“Activists” and liberal Politicians were up in a arms over underwear placed on the heads of suspected terrorists, but silent over child sex abuse.
Because it’s okay with Obama when Muslims homosexually rape little boys.
This article is from 2010..it’s obvious they’ve known about this well before then too.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/28/afghan-men-struggle-sexual-identity-study-finds/
“Apparently, according to the report, Pashtun men interpret the Islamic prohibition on homosexuality to mean they cannot “love” another man — but that doesn’t mean they can’t use men for “sexual gratification.”
***These subhuman heathens are the ultimate hypocrites.
All the way up to the White Hut. Disgusting!
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