"Teaching American Values"

[JackLuis]

"Teaching American Values," is what our Military is supposed to do, aside from blowing 'the enemy' away.

But the State Department, or the CIA ignores that part of the mission if it causes problems.

U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies

KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.”

“The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense),” Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who hopes to save Sergeant Martland’s career, wrote last week to the Pentagon’s inspector general.

It's apparently so much easier to 'look the other way' from the Pentagon or State Department than it is listening to the screams of the innocent in Kabul.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We do the same at our public schools.

 

[Samuelx]

What a bunch of cynics.

 

[lovecraft68]

American values is sadly becoming an oxy-moron.