Posted on 11/25/2017 10:57:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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 were not allowed to do anything about it, the Marines 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 its their culture.
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally boy play, and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.
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And then nuke the entire Middle East from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Birds with the exception of birds of prey have few standards.
Relative to birds we caught some incredible video on our game camera yesterday. We had taken a deer and butchered it out. We left the entrails and carcass for the animals to dispose of. We put a game camera on it.
First the buzzards came in and started to dine. A beautiful Red Tail hawk flew in and ran the buzzards off. He sat and ate on the remains for a few minutes. Then more buzzards came in and it became a bit of a Mexican standoff when a Mexican Eagle flew in. He was the big boy. The hawk and eagle stood their ground against the buzzards. Then the Turkey Vultures flew in in mass. They won. They are big boys with an attitude.
It was most amazing to see. At the end of the day nothing was left except bones. I like living out in the countryside away from most people. Nature is pure but harsh.
I’m glad to see you posting more actively lately SS; you contribute a lot of good stuff, especially for the noob youngsters who aren’t as educated as the Gen X and older crowd.
my point exactly. this is two years old.
the recent virtue signalling by the MEDIA and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) over the unproven accusations against people like Roy Moore show their hypocrisy.
No one (of import) on the left said ANYTHING about what Team Obama did in Afghanistan when it came to these actions. Instead, Islam was applauded and cheered.
At least the Roman Catholic scandal was ACKNOWLEDGED as sin by the church, whereas this action by the Muslims of Afghanistan, as far as I know, has NOT been universally condemned.
Yes, you are more than right.
I have friends “on the left” (family actually), and what I got mostly from them when mentioning a couple of the worst reported occasions of Afghan men and their boy sex-slaves that our military encountered, it was at best an “oh my” and at worst a shrug, as if saying without saying “ well what were WE supposed to do”.
Were it me instead of Obama, our military in Afghanistan would have had a zero-tolerance policy on the matter, and there would be no Afghan persons working with us, military or not, no matter their rank or importance, if they demonstrated any amount of pedophile sex that we were aware of.
If one of our military “knocked off” any such person, I’d instruct our DOD to take a “we know nothing” policy. If the Afghan government insisted on making an issue of it, my answer would be “we can leave any time you want”.
Thanks. Most time I bother posting is to posit a different point of view since I have no time to waste—to shake loose what Fichte noted were “unshakeable convictions that snow is black”. Only I want to return the sheeple to sanity and reality so they see the beauty and harmony which God designed and get them to truly love and raise their own children, and not have “faith’ in government or government controlled institutions which are all corrupted now. I want everyone to have the ability to see God again and shaping the mind of little children is crucial for that incredible ability.
I do have a selfish reason. I want to prevent a bunch of people like Charles Manson from being a neighbor of my children or their progeny. Ideas are dangerous to power and that is why, since Dewey our information and textbooks have been weaponized and censored from Truth (God).
I was traveling in the UK and Ireland since my daughter was just married in Scotland this summer and I bought the infamous IPhone (I never blog or post on it—just short texts to family/friends). Never had a cell—just land line, but I didn’t want to drag a computer to England, etc., and needed to be able to contact family members, if I got separated. Got it for the camera, though, which is awesome—LOVE technology when used for good but then I have a digital art degree and understand its power and time-saving abilities. : )
I’m far angrier at the IDIOT VOTERS who put obozo in the WH than I am the HOMOSEXUAL Afghan MUSLIMS who sodomize children! The muzzies are, after all, JUST BEING MUZZIES! Obozo sodomized this entire country!!
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