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
It seems that the strategy of avoiding getting in trouble by ignoring abuses/mischieves(/however you want to phrase it) goes much further than one might think. It is not only the official who does not care about a monitoring state, it is also the commander who willfully turns a blind eye to the rape of minors. But hey, as long as you get to keep your job, better do not interfere. Well, god bless America.
max….’should’ be in the strreets….the heel of conservatives…..too conservative to do that. The fact is the nation agrees on great many things….we are paralyzed by disbelief we might have to sqeek for those things….apparantly our votes are not enough. Ppl find a mandate on fraud (free free free) we the peeps say not so fast…. he threatens veto. Game over. Sorry situation but ‘should’ is the operative^. Should be in the streets. Or alternatively our repps should impeach.
Facts have a Liberal bias, anyway…
Mike, so it seems.
Annie
Your mistake was stating a fact about the Taliban’s position regarding Batcha Bazi. Facts are not permitted.
Paul C
“I can no longer understand US foreign policy. Black is white, white is black.”
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It’s all a grey areas. They kill one terrorist #1. He’s replaced by a new #1. That the USA has to do a Stan Laurel and scratch it’s head about it is comical. That we keep electing these comedians to do real work while they burn our taxes in this scheme… Americans should be in the streets. “Should”.
Nick
Your prefer child rapists?
meanwhile….all service members are ‘mandatory reporters’ and must nark on parents of any kid on base playing at the park without adult supervision. No parent can ‘baby sit’ their neighbors kids on base unless they are a liscensed ‘day care’ provider…and god forbid a troop be seen spanking his own kid….his career will be over for any of the above….playing spanking baby sitting etc. They are ‘taught’ this culture (social engineering) at annual
training. Then they deploy and their sensibility shouldn’t be shocked? Cognative dissonance is what the pentagon aims for.
Well, looks as if we will be getting many of those animals over here, as refugees, so best keep your kids and women close and your guns loaded. The jack in the white house apparently doesn’t mind such atrocities. Of all Presidents, this one is entertaining the Pope, sure hope he can see through him.. How sick. He won’t stand up for our own men who are stuck in that God forsaken country.
thanks Annie for clarification.I guess one atrocity is exchanged for another. do want to be correct tho. appreciate your comment.
The report you mention in the first paragraph, the one every American should read… Could you please post a link to it?
Why not just impose American principles.
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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In The Year Of Our Lord, 2015, the political landscape is quite different.
No matter what it is, as long as it is foreign, non-European, non-Caucasian, minority, etc. it is absolutely correct, according to those desiring to takeover and/or “fundamentally transform” America.
No matter what it is, if it has anything to do with being American, Caucasian, majority, etc., it is absolutely wrong, evil and actionable.
Of course the American founding documents, literally, have nothing to do with this dogma and propaganda.
The Christian European majority has dominion per the Constitution.
Something has gone horribly wrong in America.
America has been “interpreted” out of existence by the treasonous Supreme Court/Judicial Branch.
Apparently, Americans have assumed the guilt arbitrarily and falsely assigned to them by liberal/collectivist/progressive/socialist democrats.
Why? Why not just overrule them?
Why don’t Americans just revoke voting rights? In order to vote in 1789, an individual had to be a citizen, male, 21, European, 50lbs. Sterling/50 acres.
The SCOTUS “decides” subjectively and cavalierly in stark contrast to the words of the Founders.
Sounds like America needs to revisit 1776 when George Washington et al. decided to
grab the bull by the horns.
I’m guessing Malala isn’t waxing poetic about those good ol’ Taliban days. Progressives are stupid and shameless, not always in that order.
“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.”
. . . . Although bacha bazi is outlawed in Afghanistan, being against both sharia law and the civil code, there is little enforcement. Muhammad Ibrahim, deputy Police Chief of Jowzjan denies that the practice continues: “We have not had any cases of bacha bazi in the last four to five years. It does not exist here anymore.”
A 2010 documentary looked at the revival of the tradition, produced by journalist Najibullah Quraishi. When the film was first shown in Afghanistan, national embarrassment was acute and some of the featured men were arrested. However, they were shortly back on the streets.
Bacha Bazi: The Tragedy of Afghanistan’s Dancing Boys
An old tradition has experienced a disturbing revival in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/08/bacha-bazi-the-tragedy-of-afghanistans-dancing-boys/
By Roshni Kapur August 23, 2014 < < << A 2010 documentary looked at the revival of the tradition, produced by journalist Najibullah Quraishi.
Ever get tired of blaming Bush? lmao! Bushitis should be labeled a liberal twitch. hahahahaha Seems to me Obama was responsible for reviving it and has done little to zero to stop it.
Here’s another story on the practice and gain dated in 2010: http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/muslim-sex-slaves-bacha-bazi-aka-boy-play-where-very-young-boys-are-the-entertainment-for-grown/blog-269453/
$2 billion per week for 7 years buys a lot for someone.
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.
These US
officialscriminals responsible for turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children by Afghanofficialscriminals are the same fractions of Americans responsible for lying the US into elective wars based wholly upon lies, torture, kidnapping, indefinite incognito/incommunicado detention without charge, stealing trillions of $ in crony bailouts (etal).The point of moral relativism that few would have thought possible for our nation has been undermined by US
officialscriminals in the name of political expediency and personal profit.These criminal actions on part of the US government and it’s agents are simply business as usual.
Expecting the criminal cabal in the US to be held to account by those operating within the once was republic is akin to expecting to see pigs fly.
I can no longer understand US foreign policy. Black is white, white is black.
shocking
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