Multiculturalism makes rape OK

• U.S. soldiers listen to the screams of boys being sexually assaulted by Afghan police officers.
• Green Berets learn an Afghan militiaman raped a 14-year-old girl. His punishment? One day in jail and the girl is forced to marry the predator.
• Another militia commander murdered his 12-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing for having kissed a boy. No punishment.
• A police commander abducted a boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chaining him to his bed. When the boy's mother intervened and demanded her son's return, she was beaten.

You may think it's bad enough serving in the U.S. military in the hopelessness of an Afghan war with no victory in sight.

But imagine witnessing horrors like the above and being told by the top U.S. military brass to look the other way because Afghanistan is simply another culture.

This was the shocking report by the New York Times earlier this week – U.S. soldiers punished for stopping rapes and molestations of juveniles. Mind your own business, they're told.

"Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population," the Times report said. "The practice is called bacha bazi, literally 'boy play,' and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene – in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records."

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And what are we fighting for, again?

"The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban," the report continued. "But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages – and doing little when they began abusing children."

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One former Special Forces captain who confronted a militia commander for chaining a boy to his bed faced discipline for doing so. It might even end his military career.

"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, the guy who knocked the militiaman on his backside. "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."

So what's the official policy? You can hear it from the horse's mouth, Col. Brian Tribus, spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan: "Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law. … [T]here would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it."

The only real proscription against rape is when it is used as a weapon of war, explained Tribus.

The Times report explains: "The American policy of nonintervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban. It also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be a mark of social status."

It's enough to make you sick.

This has become Barack Obama's war.

The rules of engagement against the enemy aren't much better than the injustices perpetrated within eyesight and earshot of U.S. soldiers who are told to keep their mouths shut.

Meanwhile, the brutal Taliban is being eclipsed as the primary threat to the Afghan government by ISIS.

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