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Volume 45 - No. 43

October 22, 2015

by lyle e davis

Editor’s Note: This story is likely to make some of our readers very angry. It did me as well. Some of you may argue “why would you print such a terrible story?” The answer is, it’s a story that needs to be told. It’d a dirtly little secret that has been covered up in Afghanistan, by the Afghan government, by our military leaders, and by our government, and only now are bits and pieces being leaked out. For those of you who are offended, I’m sorry the story offends you But I’m not sorry we published the story. That’s what newspapers and their editors do . . tell stories. Some of which are painful. As is this one. ••••• I’m just a little old country boy from Minnesota and Nebraska and I guess I don’t really understand the ways of the world. But maybe somebody far more wise than me can explain what in the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? Why are we there?

Like many of you, I took Sociology in college . . . and I learned that other cultures differ a great deal from ours. They have customs, traditions and practices that are abhorren to us . . . but that we, as worldly souls, need to not judge but just accept they have a different culture than ours and we should ignore those actions that offend us.

Philosophically, I understand the logic of that argument. But then I read of an Afghan custom known as “bacha bazi,” or “boy play.” Sounds innocent enough . . . but it’s not. It is custom of Afghan man grabbing young boys, as young as 10 years old, even younger, and raping them Sodomy.

You may have read about or heard of a current case that is under review by the US Military forces that sought to remove a Special Operations Sergeant (Green Beret) from the military because he was so upset at an Afghan militia man who kidnapped a 12-year-old boy and chained him to his bed The Paper - 760.747.7119

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as a sex slave, and repeatedly sodomized him.

Sergeant First Class Charles Martland became so enraged at this treatment of an innocent young boy that he beat the Afghan militiaman soundly. Gave him a good, well-earned thumping. Kicked the pudding out of him. This is just one of those dirty little secrets that we learn about Afghan and their “culture” - if you can call it that.

SFC Martland was unwilling to “look the other way.” This Green Beret took matters into his own hands and beat the hell out of the Afghan militiaman who raped the 12 year-old boy repeatedly. I say, good for him.

Had he killed the guy I would have shed no tears.

But, as they did in Vietnam, the top brass and politicians got involved and decided that Sergeant Martland was no longer fit be be part of our military. I say bunk.

The Afghans can grow poppy fields, harvest them and convert the end product to heroin

base . . . and we look the other way . . . because we don’t want to offend the warlords on whom we count for support against the Taliban, Al Queda and, now, presumably, ISIS. The Afghans, it seems, are incapable of having any government, at any level, that is not entirely corrupt.

Yet we look the other way when funds are diverted because it’s better to not rock the boat when we’re dealing with an ally in fighting evil.

And we are told to look Sergeant First Class Charles the other way when Martland, Afghan men kidnap and 11-year Army veteran and Bronze rape young boys. Star recipient Rep. Duncan Hunter, RAlpine, wrote several letters to Martland had a “moral necessiDefense Secretary Ash Carter ty to intervene” against a child in Martland’s defense and pro- rapist who was supported by U.S. trainers and tax dollars, vided character references. and he did so in a way that was “To say that you’ve got to be misrepresented by Army leadnice to the child rapist because ership, Hunter added. otherwise the other child rapists might not like you is “Charles is an elite warrior, one of the stupidest things I’ve and he’s exactly the type of perever heard — totally insane son we need and want defendand wrong,” Hunter said in ing this country. He did the right thing when he confronted one. the Afghan commander for kid-

Why the Hell are we in Afghanistan? Continued on Page 2


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