Human trafficking double standards update: 'U.S. Defense Department is publishing a new manual for our troops deployed in the Middle East which "orders soldiers not to make derogatory comments about t

LeBamba · 2013-01-30T06:21:02+00:00

Standard. Criticizing their practices can actually be counter-productive, which is the reason the administration published this manual in the first place. Pushing the entire catalogue of Western ethics is not part of the job description as a grunt, so keep quiet and don't make a clusterfuck out of local Afghan-US relations.

shadowbanned6 · 2013-01-30T10:39:54+00:00

The leaked draft contains a list of "taboo conversation topics" that soldiers should try to avoid, including "making derogatory comments about the Taliban," "advocating women’s rights" an "any criticism of pedophilia."

Of course, the practice of child molestation is rampant throughout Afghanistan and regularly practiced by many Afghan men.

In 2009, The Ottawa Citizen reported the claim made by a former Canadian soldier, that while deployed, he saw two Afghan police officers sodomize a young boy at knife point on a Canadian Forces base near Kandahar.

Cpl. Travis Schouten said: "It’s disgusting. We’re telling people that we’re trying to build a nation there and we let this happen?"

"We allow rampant abuse of young boys at the hands of what is supposed to be their finest police officers and army officers, then what does that say?"

Schouten described the disturbing scene he witnessed, which still haunts him, saying:

"I walked in and they were raping a kid. The kid was bleeding. The guy with the camo fatigues had a knife in his hand.

I wasn’t going to start doing something at the scene...I’m in the middle of the ANP (Afghan National Police) headquarters. What do I do? Start shooting Afghan police? I'd get myself shot."

Schouten says that after the incident, he was confronted by an Afghan interpreter who worked with the military. The man had two 5-year-old boys with him.

"He brought up the fact he likes to rape little boys. He’s telling me how he likes to use a knife on them," Schouten added.

2013-01-30T14:10:51+00:00

This is retarded, when I was in Afganistan in a small COP in the middle of nowhere I saw some truly messed up stuff. From the enemy, the locals and even the ANA. I almost got in serious trouble. My squad had found and adopted a puppy, feed and nursed it back to good health. With all the stress from constant attacks, shitty living conditions and limited contact with families that cute puppy was the best moral booster you could ask for. In afgani culture they often cut the ears of puppies to make them " tougher". A few ANA were talking about something and I asked out interpreter who was there what they were saying. They were talking about cutting the dog's ears off. I calmly drew my knife and told them if anything happened to that dog I would find them and cut their ears off. Our Pl found out and we had a long talk, almost got in trouble for that incident.

paxNoctis · 2013-01-30T23:51:21+00:00

I love how our troops have to fight wars ever since they started sending TV cameras into warzones (so, right about Vietnam).

If you're not going to fight a war, don't send troops. If you're going to fight a war, send troops, but no journalists.

Being sensitive to the enemy is not how you win (if anyone can be said to "win" a war) any damn thing.

kupfernikel · 2013-01-30T16:45:17+00:00

USA is not interested in briging democracy to Afghanistan...The army is not a tool of freedom...They dont give a fuck about the afghans, as long as they dont disrupt the "new world order" that the USA have planned.

Welcome to the real world.

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