US Facilitates Child Rape

[Paul in Saudi]

The New York Times reports that the US military has had a (at least informal) policy of looking the other way while our Afghan allies ass-rape little boys.

I am a retired army officer. I am outraged by this. This is not a reflection of Afghan culture, it is a reflection of our American and our military culture. The fault for this lays within us.

The US decided long ago that we were not fighting to overthrow the Afghan culture. We decided not to destroy the culture that sustains our enemies. This is dumb, and morally wrong.

I am not writing at my best, I am sputtering with rage.

-=Linky=-

 

[VGL]

You have not read the whole thing. You probably just read the tittle and then left it. This is mostly the corrupt government, not the people or their culture. The government ignores this problem because they are way to curropt. This is not the cause of Afghans culture but merely the acts and denial of the corrupt government. Here is some parts of it you probably didn't read:

Though some Americans have tried to write off the practice of raping boys, which was described in an article in The New York Times on Monday, as a cultural difference between Afghans and Westerners, many Afghans say that they, too, find it shameful and wrong. (In fact, the Taliban banned it when in power.)

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I read the whole thing.

 

[Tigranes]

The New York Times reports that the US military has had a (at least informal) policy of looking the other way while our Afghan allies ass-rape little boys.

I was listening NPR yesterday when the father of one of the American officers protesting the abuse was telling how his son was later killed by one of those boys, who was 17. When those "comfort boys" reach an adult age the custom requires them to commit an act of violence to break away from their previous status and act like a man. Astonishingly the father was not as mad with the Afghan boy as he was with the US command.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Unfortunately, there is nothing new or sensational here. After all, we have toppled numerous "leftist" democracies and put brutal far-right military dictatorships in their places where millions have been tortured and murdered.

The US military even still runs a school for Latin American countries and other allies where they can learn such techniques from the best at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Ronald Reagan was even apparently directly involved in trading guns for drugs between Iran and Nicaragua while using the money to topple yet another democratically elected government.

Speaking of which, many of the top political leaders in Afghanistan make their money selling heroin. Yet nothing is done about it.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I am not writing at my best, I am sputtering with rage.

???

Between the massive opium trade, massive corruption, human trafficking, slavery, terrorism, civilian deaths, and ruinous war. Being out raged over rape seems to be very strange
Afghanistan has so many problems, so much wasted lives, money and nothing to show for it

 

[warpus]

The systematic rape of men is a running joke in the U.S.; looking at how your average American laughs at all the rape that happens in American prisons it's not surprising to me that people brought up in this culture would be tempted to look the other way when this sort of thing happens elsewhere.

It's a backwards culture of rape acceptance and sometimes mockery. Why would we expect such people to fight for the rights of the raped?

 

[Tigranes]

The systematic rape of men is a running joke in the U.S.; looking at how your average American laughs at all the rape that happens in American prisons it's not surprising to me that people brought up in this culture would be tempted to look the other way when this sort of thing happens elsewhere.

It's a backwards culture of rape acceptance and sometimes mockery. Why would we expect such people to fight for the rights of the raped?

There is a fascinating piece by a writer turned inmate Daniel Genis called A-gentlemans-guide-to-sex-in-prison, who describes all those issues.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Here is the other side of the story by an ex-convict who has an entirely different perspective of the situation having been sexually assaulted by a prison guard, including actual facts instead of anecdotal "evidence":

Why We Let Prison Rape Go On

Here is another one written by a male victim:

Rape in the American Prison

 

[tetley]

Just FYI, some of the more hard-core conspiracy theories allege that the upper ranks of the U.S. government engage in rape all the time, and in fact a lot of the time it has to be consensual just to attain an upper rank. I never did any independent research into the truth/untruth of these claims, but circumstantially when you consider this story, together with the obscene rape rate in the military, together with the CO of the 82nd getting relieved of command and tried for forcible rape, together with going from dont-ask-dont-tell to the U.S. army secretary being homosexual in the span of 5 years, it paints a bleak picture.

 

[Formaldehyde]

"Someone is doing the raping." Donald Trump

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Mexicans?

 

[gay_Aleks]

The Jews? Canadians?

 

[warpus]

The rapists.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Did they start the fire, then?

 

[bhavv]

So basically ain't nobody got time to care about rape.

It wouldn't surprise me if rape / forced 'consensual' sex is how people make it high up in politics. That and other shenanigans such as sticking ones nuts into a dead pigs mouth.