Us Soldiers Told To Ignore Afghan Allies' Abuse Of Boys

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‘No words’: NYT alleges U.S. soldiers told to ‘ignore’ Afghan allies’ raping of young boys

Prepared to be horrified.

The New York Times has a bombshell report out tonight alleging that U.S. soldiers and Marines serving in Afghanistan have been told to cover up rampant child abuse and sexual assault of young boys by Afghan police officers.

Here’s the opener:

KABUL, Afghanistan — 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.”

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.

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.

Needless to say, folks are outraged at the report.

Even worse than being told to cover up the abuse, the Times goes on to report that the military has taken disciplinary action against those who did attempt to put it to a stop. Read more HERE.

 

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dup, my bad

http://www.dreamindemon.com/communi...e-of-boys-by-afghan-allies.79933/#post-937275

 

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More on this story...

DOD report on this issue (short in length)

Decorated Green Beret is kicked out of U.S. Special Forces after 'shoving' Afghan police commander who 'raped boy, 12, and beat up his mother when she reported the crime’

Source

Additional links that might be of interest...

Bacha Bazi: The Tragedy of Afghanistan’s Dancing Boys | The Diplomat

The Dancing Boys Of Afghanistan | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

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Two cell the community organizer fake geniuses and Nobel Prize winner for doing nothing at his loser best
Turning a once great nation into a third world disaster

NEW WORLD ORDER: PUTIN OUTSMARTS OBAMA

Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader
The baton was officially transferred Monday to the
world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.

President Obama (remember him?) embraced the ideals espoused by the United Nations’ founders 70 years ago: Diplomacy and “international order” will win over time, while might and force will lose.

Putin, too, appealed to UN laws (as he sees them), but he also used his speech to announce the formation of a “broad international coalition” to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

“Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces” to fight “those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind,” he said.

And who’d lead this new coalition? Hint: Moscow has always celebrated the Allies’ World War II victory as a Russian-led fete.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/29/obama-has-turned-putin-into-the-worlds-most-powerful-leader/

 

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losers talk, winners kick ass

Vladimir Putin sees Barack Obama's coolness as weakness – and it is hurting America
Russia's bombing of American allies in Syria underlines how much more powerful and provocative Putin is than he was before Obama took office
This all comes on the heels of President Barack Obama's drawing of a "red line" regarding the use of chemical weapons, only to back down when the Assad regime – by most accounts – used them.

This past week, White House press secretary Josh Earnest strained credulity when he said Mr Obama doesn't regret drawing that red line. The Syria bombings also come almost immediately after Mr Putin met with Mr Obama at the UN where they agreed to "deconflict" military operations – a very Obama-esque line that Mr Putin immediately crossed.

Mr Obama's mix of cool insouciance and biting sarcasm plays much better with the latte-sipping crowd than it does with former KGB operatives, where his style and rhetoric suggests weakness, softness, and a lack of commitment and moral clarity.

Today, it looks like he's allowing Russia to push America around, and dictate the terms of our being pushed around.

One can only imagine that this might impact the 2016 presidential race. My theory is that it helps Donald Trump. He's perceived as a "winner" who could stand up to Mr Putin.
It's reasonable to conclude that what we need is a Mr Putin of our own. They've got a strongman – maybe we need a strongman? Mr Trump might be a sonofabitch, Americans might conclude, but he's our sonofabitch!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ss-as-weakness-and-it-is-hurting-America.html

End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State'
An insider revealed: "It is very clear that Russia wants to sweep up the west of the country, taking Raqqa and all the oil and gas resources around Palmyra.

"This is fast becoming a race to Raqqa – to secure the oil fields they need to cleanse the region of insurgents, and the IS capital is vital to do that."

It comes a day after Russian jets obliterated nine ISIS outposts in just 24 hours using bunker-busting bombs.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...aqqa-troops-soldiers-air-strike-jets-military