Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley, 21, of Oceanside, N.Y., died Aug. 10 in Garmsir, Afghanistan, while supporting combat operations. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force. There is an incredibly disturbing story in the New York Times this week where soldiers have reported being told by American officials to ignore the rape and abuse of Afghan boys at a base by Afghan officers so not to interfere with a cultural practice. The boys were brought to the base to be raped as part of what Afghans call bacha bazi, literally “boy play.” Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father that he would lay on his bunk at night and listen to the screaming of the boys as they were sexually abused by Afghan officers. Buckley went to his superiors and was allegedly told not to interfere. Buckley was later shot to death by an Afghan policeman at the base in 2012.
Buckley’s father believes that his son’s effort to stop the raping of the boys was a factor in his killing.
It is a disgusting report, but should be read by every American. We should then resolve to confirm every American official who maintained this policy and guarantee that they are removed immediately from government and military service, including any Defense, Intelligence, or State officials who had knowledge of the policy and did nothing to stop it. The question is whether there will be a true and independent investigation to confirm if these accounts are true and, if so, who was responsible for this policy.
Sexual abuse of children is a rampant and open problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders. Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, was disciplined after he beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. Quinn was relieved of his command after he roughed up the Afghan officer. The Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a Special Forces member who joined Captain Quinn in confronting the commander and is himself a Bronze Star recipient for valor for his actions during a Taliban ambush. The incident occurred when, in September 2011, an Afghan woman appeared with physical bruises on the base with her son who was also limping. She explained that he son was prized as a sex slave by Afghan officers because of his looks and that one of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had abducted the boy and chained to his bed to be used as a sex slave. When she tried to save her son, she was beaten. Captain Quinn summoned Abdul Rahman and Rahman reportedly admitted it but laughed when told that it was unacceptable. Quinn then threw him to the ground and Rahman complained to American authorities who relieved Quinn and Martland — no doubt signaling to other Afghan officers that raping of children would be allowed.
Col. Brian Tribus, a spokesman for the military insisted: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law . . . there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.”
By the way, the man involved in the killing of Buckley was an Afghan police commander named Sarwar Jan who was himself a notorious figure accused of rampant abuse and corruption. Buckley had complained that Jan has moved a large number of “tea boys” into the same barracks as the Marines to be used as sex slaves. Two weeks after Buckley sent a report on Jan’s sex slaves, one one of the older boys with Mr. Jan — around 17 years old — grabbed a rifle and killed Lance Corporal Buckley and the other Marines.
During later proceedings related to the shooting, the Marine Corps indicated that it might not allow evidence of Jan’s penchant raping boys as a “classified matter.”
Jan of course was promoted to a higher-ranking police command in the same province.
For years, many of us have criticized the continuing loss of American lives and treasure to prop up the corrupt Afghan government despite widespread abuses of children, women, and religious minorities. However, to have U.S. officials looking the other way as Afghan officials chain and abuse child sex slaves would represent a point of moral relativism that few would have thought possible for our nation. This warrants congressional investigation and, if found to be found, the termination of every official who helped maintain this policy.
Update: The Army has refused to rescind or reverse the discharging of Quinn.
Source: NY Times
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Reagan_sitting_with_people_from_the_Afghanistan-Pakistan_region_in_February_1983.jpg
Round up all the Pedophile Priests and shoot them by firing squad. The squad can be composed of prior victims of the Pedophile Priests. We need one or two killings of Pedophile Priests while the Pope is here so as to bring the problem to the forefront.
As for Afghanistan:
[music]
Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn!
Next stops Af Ghan Is Stan.
And its five, six, seven, open up the Pearly Gates.
Ain’t no time to wonder why…
Whoopee we’re all gonna die!
The same historical quasi explanation can be laid out to soften the practices of anything despicable: slavery, religious persecution, racism, bigotry, etc. Somehow when something as atrocious as this is ‘explained’ and given some historical perspective, it either becomes somehow acceptable as something we in our ivory towers know nothing about or at worst simply customs we don’t understand.
BS, it is despicable, the children are enslaved and tortured, the people who perform these despicable acts have absolutely no foundation in history or culture but are the scum of the earth and should be eradicated. Either this sort of scum changes its ways or it is waxed. This is not about wearing a bed sheet or a woman walking three feet behind a man etc. When a child is tortured this way there are no words that should be placed at the disposal of this heinous activity.
The US and the US military is falling short here. Obama has to grow a pair. The generals have to grow some pairs. Hats off to those US servicemen who decide to do something about it.
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/afghanistans-choice-fanatics-or-pederasts/
“The Taliban had a deep aversion towards bacha bazi, outlawing the practice when they instituted strict nationwide sharia law. According to some accounts, including the hallmark Times article “Kandahar Comes out of the Closet” in 2002, one of the original provocations for the Taliban’s rise to power in the early 1990s was their outrage over paedophilia. Once they came to power, bacha bazi became taboo, and the men who still engaged in the practice did so in secret
When the former mujahideen commanders ascended to power in 2001 after the Taliban’s ouster, they brought with them a rekindled culture of bacha bazi. Today, many of these empowered warlords serve in important positions, as governors, line ministers, police chiefs and military commanders
Since its post-2001 revival, bacha bazi has evolved, and its practice varies across Afghanistan. According to military experts I talked to in Afghanistan, the lawlessness that followed the deposing of the Taliban’s in rural Pashtunistan and northern Afghanistan gave rise to violent expressions of paedophilia. Boys were raped, kidnapped and trafficked as sexual predators regained their positions of regional power. As rule of law mechanisms and general order returned to the Afghan countryside, bacha bazi became a normalized, structured practice in many areas.”
Physical abuse of children seems to appeal to white Catholic priests as well. There is not one evil culture and one good culture. Give men special status via weapons or religion and they tend to abuse others.
Wasn’t Bush involved in Deflategate?
I think Bush killed Princess Diana.
Annie
Please don’t distract us with your pesky “facts” about what the Bush administration did or failed to do. Never mind that the Afghan war would be long over if Bush hadn’t taken his eye off the ball to invade Iraq. Never mind that the U.S. Army had to drop its admission standards under Bush in order to get enough recruits, letting I’m thousands of people who should have failed the psych profile. Don’t mention the thousands of Americans who signed up just to go kill mooslims because hooray for Jesus.
Stay focused on our mooslim president and how he hates Jesus and America and the police and most white people especially older white men and guns and stuff. Oh and freedom. He hates freedom too.
This divergence in culture is an interesting and in this case emotional one, but I think we need to take a look in the mirror. Do we force our culture on Afghanis and everyone else in the world while at the same time denying status to the International Criminal Court? Look at this wordy BS policy position from our State Department. http://www.state.gov/j/gcj/icc/
Obviously, the standoffish position of the US is toward the ICC is because the latter would be backlogged for a century with claims against the US government for crimes against humanity. So, even though it’s hard to accept that a Marine was murdered for speaking out and two other servicemembers reprimanded for their good conscience, fairness dictates that the US stand tall and take the lash, too. We cannot expect change from others if we’re not willing to change, too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/
The Taliban actually outlawed Bacha Bazi and as soon as the US invaded Afghanistan the eons long practice restarted. After watching the PBS special several years ago I wondered why we allowed the Afghan army officers to engage in such disgusting horrendous practices. This Bach Bazi was going on during the Bush years also according to the documentary and was not interfered with by our commanders even then.
Cpl. Buckley’s story should be posted in every high school in America. Young Americans should learn that there is nothing worth fighting and dying for in those cell pool countries. They’ll only come home in a body bag or injured for life, and for what? To protect a sick, corrupt regime such as described in this story? If young adults want to do something heroic or adventurous, there are certainly more worthwhile pursuits…police officer, fireman, Jesuit Volunteer Corps are a few that come to mind….
If this is true it is disgusting….
Those responsible for this madness need to be made accountable for their decisions under an Afghan Law of an Ass for an Ass
I dont belive for 1 minute that rape is condoned in the Quran.
You think Obama is going to do anything about the raping, killing and slavery of young boys and girls and women?
For the first time in his presidency he made a Christian declaration “God Bless Planned Parenthood”.
If he can declare God’s blessing on cutting up limbs and organs of live fetuses, he sure isn’t going to worry about the abuse and killing of woman and children in Afghanistan . He thinks like a true radical Muslim.
Don’t you wonder WHO told these Military Officials to hand down ORDERS NOT TO INTERFERE with this Sick Culture of Abusing Young Boys? Obama comes to my mind, as HE would be the CIC, who Tells the Military this, and Keep it Quiet and Away from the American People.
He’s done this before, with “keeping the secret Iran deals Away from Americans, as he permits this terrorist nation to ‘continue their nuclear weapons EVEN as they chant: “Death to America”
A special place in hell of the money changers (and their puppets like Barry Soetoro) behind these wars (as they are behind every single war…don’t take my word for it, take the word of Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine of his time).
What wonderful refugees they’ll make to the US.
Celebrate diversity!
50 career intelligence people have written to the IG asking for an investigation into the Obama administration, and CENTCOM sycophants, changing their reports on how dangerous ISIS is and how ineffective our pin prick strategy is working. Did anyone see the buffoonish General testifying last week that our billion dollar Syrian rebel strategy has produced “4 or 5” fighters. Don’t tell me these orders didn’t come from the WH. After all, this is the righteous war according to Obama. So, anything not righteous must be hidden.
It should be encouraged to wax these perverts. It should be done quietly and the bodies disappeared. Local customs etc. like slavery and burning witches. Yet we go in an kill millions for oil, mineral riches, ideological difference, etc. If there was ever a better reason to wax someone this is it.
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