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Posted on 09/21/2015 4:15:25 AM PDT by markomalley
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
No surprise that our homo-centric, homo-worshipping military and political leadership has no problem with “boy rape.”
It’s sick beyond words what has become of our nation. We have truly depraved and truly evil people in charge of both our politics and our culture.
Yes, I’ve become thoroughly ashamed of my country.
Love wins!
/sarc
Funny, this wasn’t on my 6 o’clock news.
And hung.
Organized rape is a war crime. There should be war crimes trials one day and the US government officials, regardless of their levels, who condoned this need to be tried and executed for their activities.
Can anyone tell me what in hell we’re ‘protecting’ in that hellhole?
War Crimes!! YES!!! If ONLY we had a Press that would do the digging to see who gave the stand down orders for LITTLE BOYS TO BE RAPED AND CHAINED TO BEDS!!!! Was it Obama or was it the GAY SECRETARY of the ARMY???
There was a cabinet member who agitated for the US to bomb the camps, because everyone was aware of what was going on there. Until 1945, there was no move made. Risking air crews to carry out bombing runs on targets with no military significance wouldn't have made sense from the standpoint of ending the Third Reich.
By contrast, during the Warsaw Uprising, Stalin ordered a full stop by the Red Army, to allow the Germans to snuff it out; and of course, Stalin ordered the massacre of the Polish officers, and the USSR framed the Germans for that as well. Oh, and the USSR didn't lift a finger to help the victims of the Holocaust. Raoul Wallenberg was arrested in 1944 by the Red Army in Hungary, supposedly executed by either bullet or poison in 1947, but may have been alive in the 1980s, still in custody.
The Italian campaign was sold (by the UK) as a way to grab 13 airfields in southern Italy, allowing long range bombers to hit the Romanian oilfields and various factories in Germany’s occupied areas. After that was achieved, there was no more nonsense about whether the Normandy invasion was a go.
The strain of supplying the allied troops on the European mainland was considerable. The Battle of the Bulge began as a German offensive (a hail mary, but regardless) that had as its objective the reduction of the port of Antwerp, to try to keep the allied armies in the west starving as it were.
A cousin who didn’t go through D-Day, but spent the better part of a year loading and firing artillery across France and Germany (including the Bulge), came ashore aboard an LST (Landing Ship, Tank; often derisively referred to as Large Slow Target). He got to talk to the pilot, who said a lot of pilots didn’t actually beach the craft, making unloading difficult or delayed. There was a liquid ballast which got pumped to the rear, which raised the nose a bit, allowing dry disembarking through the big door up front. After unloading (which could take hours), more liquid was pumped to the rear, raising the bow, and allowing the LST to back off the shore. Once clear, the ballast was rebalanced and the LST turned for home and another load.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it, ==
I would think this is evidence of a Hostile Work Environment.
And the remedies should apply.
Interesting stuff Civ
LST - ‘Large Slow Target’... LOL - first time I’ve heard that one... thanks
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Heh, this was on that same page:
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us... they can’t get away this time.” — Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, at Guadalcanal
reminds me of this one:
“They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.” — Creighton Abrams
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