“You cannot try to impose American values and American norms onto the Afghan culture because they’re completely different… We can report and we can encourage them,” Col. Johnson told The News Tribune. “We do not have any power or the ability to use our hands to compel them to be what we see as morally better.”
The practice of influential men using underage boys as their sexual patterns (sic), known as “Bacha Bazi,” is an illegal but common custom in Afghanistan.
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:think: I think I see the problem.
Okay, first of all..."using
underage boys as their sexual
partners"? What, you mean child rape? Because that's what that is. There are no "partners" in that. Thanks for contributing to the problem you utter moron of a writer. You didn't even spell "partner" right.
Second, the moral relativism of the colonel. He doesn't even know raping a boy is wrong. Either that or, more likely, the political situation this
colonel is in prevents him from recognizing that raping boys in wrong. Just how the hell high up the chain until we find someone who recognizes does?
Third, you put a bunch
Green Berets in proximity to this "common afghan custom" of raping boys and, when one of them flips out and beats the hell out of someone...you punish them.
Everyone is wrong here. :nono:
