If the latest revelations about the Afghani perverts and U.S. military leadership’s seeming indifference to their victimization of young boys doesn’t inflame your sense of moral outrage, I’m pretty sure nothing will ~ U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies.
 
Why even the liberal New York Times temporarily suspended their progressive agenda to report on this horror ~

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.

These atrocities are finally being exposed in the wake of the Army’s prosecution of Sgt. First Class Charles Martland. Unbelievably, Martland’s former Special Forces captain, Dan Quinn, was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. ~ Four years later, the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Martland.
 
The background story ~

In September 2011, an Afghan woman, visibly bruised, showed up at an American base with her son, who was limping. One of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had abducted the boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chained to his bed, the woman explained. When she sought her son’s return, she herself was beaten. Her son had eventually been released, but she was afraid it would happen again, she told the Americans on the base.
 
She explained that because “her son was such a good-looking kid, he was a status symbol” coveted by local commanders, recalled Mr. Quinn, who did not speak to the woman directly but was told about her visit when he returned to the base from a mission later that day.
 
So Captain Quinn summoned Abdul Rahman and confronted him about what he had done. The police commander acknowledged that it was true, but brushed it off. When the American officer began to lecture about “how you are held to a higher standard if you are working with U.S. forces, and people expect more of you,” the commander began to laugh.
 
“I picked him up and threw him onto the ground,” Mr. Quinn said. Sergeant Martland joined in, he said. “I did this to make sure the message was understood that if he went back to the boy, that it was not going to be tolerated,” Mr. Quinn recalled.
There is disagreement over the extent of the commander’s injuries. Mr. Quinn said they were not serious, which was corroborated by an Afghan official who saw the commander afterward.

And these two American officers, who refuse to ignore this evil, are the bad guys?!
As Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (played by Alec Guinness) exclaimed in “Bridge Over the River Kwai,” this is “madness.”
 

When asked about American military policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col. Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.” He added that “there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.” An exception, he said, is when rape is being used as a weapon of war […}
 
The American policy of nonintervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban. It also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status.

 
 
See, it’s just their “culture.” Their sick, twisted culture.
 
Who’s more evil? The evil bastards who do this? Or the evil bastards who prevent good people from stopping it?!
 
As Dan Quinn told the Times ~

“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights. But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”

Have our feckless leaders fallen so far down the moral relativity rabbit hole that they’ve actually lost the ability to discern right from wrong? Do they realize that their cowardice in the face of evil undermines our entire mission? Why go to war at all if there is no right or wrong?

 
I love the story Mark Steyn recounts in his book “America Alone” about General Sir Charles Napier in 19th century India when the British were faced with the practice of “suttee,” the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. ~

(The general) was impeccably multicultural: “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom; when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.

In the 19th century common sense, personal integrity and courage in the face of evil were still highly esteemed traits. Were General Napier alive today and attempted to assert his authority over a barbaric practice like “suttee” – to righteously insist on the superiority of his “custom” – he would promptly be relieved of duty for cultural insensitivity.

 
The general had what Steyn called cultural confidence – in spades. America’s military leaders are suffering from a total lack of it. To our national shame.

 
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Related:
Pentagon Punishing U.S. Soldiers Who Tried to Stop Child Rape
Afghan practice of sexually abusing boys making the national news