{"id":12183,"date":"2018-05-25T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T11:42:12","slug":"fff-your-tax-dollars-bankroll-afghan-child-molesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/fff-your-tax-dollars-bankroll-afghan-child-molesters\/","title":{"rendered":"FFF: Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child Molesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Future of Freedom Foundation<\/a>
\nYour Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child-Molesters
\nby James Bovard<\/h2>\n

Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more U.S. troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his \u201cprincipled realism\u201d and saluted \u201ca rare but welcome story of self-correction\u201d (since Trump had portrayed Afghanistan as a lost cause when he was a presidential candidate). A New York Daily News op-ed praised the president because \u201cTrump said \u2018win\u2019 and \u2018victory\u2019 more times in 15 minutes than President Barack Obama did in eight years.\u201d CNN cheered that expanding the Afghan war allowed Trump to \u201cstake out a more conventional presidential posture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump assured the American people that \u201cto prosecute this war, we will learn from history.\u201d But his revised mission to Afghanistan \u2014 a low-wattage repeat of Obama\u2019s 2009+ \u201csurge\u201d \u2014 ignores the atrocities that the U.S. government has long bankrolled in that sprawling nation.<\/p>\n

Since 2002, the United States has spent more than $70 billion financing Afghan security forces, including the Afghan military and police. A law sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) prohibits the Pentagon from bankrolling any foreign military units if there is \u201ccredible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

But members of Congress have finagled to allow the U.S. military to continue bankrolling Afghan units who are committing atrocities. Congressional appropriations bills have specified that funds for Afghan Security Forces \u201cshall be available to the Secretary of Defense, notwithstanding any other provision of the law.\u201d This provision has allowed the Pentagon to completely ignore the record of Afghan units that the U.S. government supports. This clause, which is referred to by Pentagon policymakers as the \u201cnotwithstanding authority,\u201d removes legal and moral limits on U.S. government spending in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon did not provide any guidance to troops on reporting human rights violations until a decade after the U.S. invasion. The U.S. government has long known that U.S.-funded Afghan units routinely engage in bacha bazi<\/em> \u2014 boy play. Afghan military commanders and police kidnap boys and use them as sex slaves. American troops have complained of seeing boys chained to beds and hearing their screams at night as they are assaulted. U.S. soldiers who forcefully tried to stop the abuse were punished by their superiors. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) complained to the Pentagon, \u201cIt is bad enough if the Pentagon is telling our soldiers to ignore this type of barbaric and savage behavior, but it\u2019s even worse if we are punishing those who try to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, bacha bazi was punished with a death penalty, and the abuse became far less pervasive. But that prohibition ended after the U.S. invasion toppled the Taliban. Army captain Dan Quinn complained that \u201cwe were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did \u2014 that was something village elders voiced to me.\u2019\u2019 Aaron MacLean, who served in Afghanistan with the Marines, observed that the \u201cTaliban have long used reports of rapes committed by government agents as a recruiting tool. Indeed, among the elements of Mullah Omar\u2019s rise to power was his reputation for taking violent action against those who kidnapped and raped children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pentagon ignored bacha bazi abuse until a 2015 New York Times expos\u00e9 of American soldiers\u2019 being punished for protesting atrocities against boys was published. The Times reported that U.S. troops were confounded that \u201cinstead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages \u2014 and doing little when they began abusing children.\u201d Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest responded to the Times\u2019s bombshell, \u201cThe United States is deeply concerned about the safety and welfare of Afghan boys who may be exploited by members of the Afghan national security and defense forces\u2026. Protecting human rights, including by countering the exploitation of children, is a high priority for the U.S. government.\u201d Thanks to the Times report, the U.S. military finally \u201cissued clear guidance and required related training that personnel should report suspected child sexual assault,\u201d according to a recent report \u2014 14 years after the U.S. intervention began.<\/p>\n

After the Times\u2019s blockbuster article, 93 members of Congress requested that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) investigate the problem. SIGAR finished and submitted its report in June 2017. In a brief section in its July 31, 2017, quarterly report, SIGAR noted, \u201cAfghan officials remain complicit, especially in the sexual exploitation \u2026 of children by Afghan security forces.\u201d But the rest of the report was bottlenecked by the Pentagon. The Washington Post reported on November 26 that the Pentagon was blocking the release of the SIGAR report, instead releasing \u201cits own report offering a far less authoritative review\u201d of the abuses.<\/p>\n

But the Pentagon\u2019s report was also damning. The Pentagon Inspector General report revealed that some U.S. troops were \u201ctold that nothing could be done about child sexual abuse because of Afghanistan\u2019s status as a sovereign nation, that it was not a priority for the command, or that it was best to ignore the situation and to let the local police handle it.\u201d Regarding pedophilia, the Navy gave its members training that \u201cadvises readers to control and overcome any frustration caused by cultural differences that they may experience during their deployments,\u201d while Marines were told \u201cto be mentally prepared to encounter this attitude, and to \u2018move on,\u2019\u201d according to the IG report.<\/p>\n

Eleven allegations of child sexual abuse were reported to the Afghan government but the IG refused to disclose whether anything happened to the perpetrators. Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists said the Pentagon\u2019s secrecy \u201clooks like an attempt to evade public accountability for criminal acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Pentagon still found a way to declare victory. Acting Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Robert Karam asserted that the IG report vindicated the Pentagon because it \u201cdid not identify official guidance that discouraged DoD-affiliated personnel from reporting incidents of child sexual abuse.\u201d If investigators did not find written proof of government malfeasance, then the Pentagon must be presumed innocent. The fact that no paper trail was discovered was no consolation to the vast number of Afghan boys who were molested.<\/p>\n

This past February, the Pentagon finally approved release of the SIGAR report. SIGAR has done superb work exposing the failures and follies of U.S. operations in Afghanistan since 2008. SIGAR delivers clear English without the toxic fog of bureaucratese that blights most Washington reports.<\/p>\n

Abuses such as bacha bazi<\/em> have proliferated in part because the Afghan justice system exempts vast classes of offenders. SIGAR reported that an Afghan government official was surprised that there were not more reports of child-molesting and that \u201c\u2018maybe most of the cases are not reported or investigated\u2019 because the police do not self-report cases, and people often do not report these cases because they feel they will get in more trouble\u2026. Low-level officers and soldiers have been prosecuted for child abuse because senior-level officers have money and power and can easily threaten someone to keep quiet about a crime.\u201d A non-government organization official told SIGAR investigators that \u201ceven though her organization receives reports of child sexual abuse, it did not share information on the allegations with the U.S. government because of fear of reprisal toward victims, their families, or those who report incidents.\u201d This is similar to the lawless situation that exists in some American cities where people are afraid to testify against well-known killers for fear of becoming the next homicide victim.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government has spent more than a billion dollars specifically to boost the rule of law in Afghanistan. A 2015 SIGAR report concluded that the program was a dismal failure that had produced almost zero visible benefit. Instead, deluges of U.S. aid have helped make Afghanistan one of the most corrupt nations on Earth. And the United States has provided a horrible example to the Afghans with the games played by the \u201cnotwithstanding\u201d clause in congressional appropriations. That Congress proudly bans financing of foreign atrocities, and then quietly adds an opaque phrase to appropriations bills permitting such funding, epitomizes why people cannot trust politicians to stand up for decency.<\/p>\n

The February SIGAR report warned that \u201cthe full extent of child sexual assault committed by Afghan security forces may never be known.\u201d But part of the reason that the \u201cfull extent\u201d will never be known is that U.S. government agencies did not want to know. Admitting the \u201cfull extent\u201d of Afghan government crimes would have made it more difficult to justify the continued U.S. support of an oppressive Afghan regime. And what the American people didn\u2019t know would not hurt Pentagon appropriations.<\/p>\n

In his August speech announcing more troops for Afghanistan, Trump declared that \u201cwe will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live.\u201d But, similarly, Trump has no right to force Americans to pay taxes for activities that shock their conscience. Americans would never tolerate paying federal funds for a notorious child-rape regime in Cincinnati or Omaha. But your tax dollars are underwriting similar sordid abuses in Kandahar and Kabul. Doctors, teachers, and social workers can be jailed for failing to report child abuse here at home. But, 6,000 miles away, U.S. troops risk their career for protesting pederasty.<\/p>\n

Bacha bazi is not the only barbaric Afghan practice countenanced by the U.S. government. In 2009, the U.S.-appointed president, Hamid Karzai, approved a law entitling husbands to starve their wives to death if they denied them sex. That edict did not deter Obama from boasting about America\u2019s having brought \u201cdemocracy\u201d to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

In his August surge speech, Trump declared, \u201cIn every generation, we have faced down evil, and we have always prevailed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But too often, U.S. government interventions have merely covered up evil \u2014 at the same time that U.S. aid allows the evil to multiply. Americans have been encouraged to believe that U.S. foreign policy is on moral automatic pilot and that good things happen wherever the United States intervenes. But piety too easily obscures atrocities. And the media cheerleaders for U.S. warring cannot be trusted to consistently expose the moral and other carnage abroad.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the May 2018 edition of Future of Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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