REPORT: CIA Bribed Aging Afghan Warlords With Viagra to Rape Young Boys

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.”

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 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.

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. 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.

In Sergeant Martland’s case, the Army said it could not comment because of the Privacy Act.

When asked about American military policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col. Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.” He added that “there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.” An exception, he said, is when rape is being used as a weapon of war.

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.

Democrats and Republicans are right to blame each other for the fall of Kabul. It’s a loss for America’s bipartisan foreign policy establishment as a whole. For nearly two decades Washington sent thousands of Americans to their deaths and spent trillions of taxpayer dollars to wage a strategically pointless war. And because both sides of the political divide should be held accountable, military as well as civilian officials, too, it is unlikely that anyone ever will be. Since everyone is to blame, holding anyone accountable implicates everyone.

The reality is that America lost its war in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, roughly around the time when CIA officers began bribing aging warlords with Viagra. The Americans knew all about the young boys the tribal leaders kept in their camps; because the sex drug helped Afghan elders rape more boys more often, they were beholden to America’s clandestine service. Losing Afghanistan then is the least of it. When you choose to adopt a foreign cohort’s cultural habits, customs for which the elders of your own tribe would ostracize and perhaps kill you, you have lost your civilization.

Yet military strategists, political pundits, foreign correspondents, and even historians will spend the next several decades wondering how a gang of rough Pashtun tribesmen galvanized by a fundamentalist version of Islam managed to defeat the most advanced military in the world. And that’s precisely the point: The problem with the American establishment is not simply that after 20 years in Afghanistan it did not understand the country or foresee what its opponents were likely to do after withdrawing forces. More importantly, our ruling class is so alienated from its own roots that it no longer understands the character of the country it purports to lead, and what makes it different, even exceptional. The evidence is that our elites sought to graft the effects of a civilization built by and for its own people—democracy, a military and police force, girls’ schools, etc.—onto a primitive society that had to be bribed to accept what we were offering.

There is no mystery about why the U.S. experience in Afghanistan ended in failure, embarrassment, and scandal. Nor is it a mystery why the Taliban took over Kabul so quickly. They were fighting for primacy. Their victory was foreordained.

That leads us to the fall of Kabul and the desperation of thousands of Afghans to escape the country.

Looking at social media images and videos, it’s mostly men stampeding the airport trying to flee Afghanistan.

Knowing that the Taliban will execute anyone practicing Bacha Bazi, how many of these men attempting to escape are guilty of the practice?

How will the Biden Administration find out?

Afghans trying to get on one of the last planes out of Kabul after the Taliban took over. Where are the women and children? pic.twitter.com/CSeIDc3PHL

— Anthea (@Anthea06274890) August 16, 2021

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This image of a US soldier pointing a gun at a man at the Kabul Airport is being circulated as an act of aggression by Pakistani state-backed trolls.

The truth is the soldier was trying to protect the Afghan women behind him from the reckless advances of these creepy single men. pic.twitter.com/HPhmbfQJxH

— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) August 17, 2021

Afghans running after the C-17 at the #Kabul airport terrified of the forced take over of the #Talibans

The next is a clear video of men falling from C-17. They were Clinging to some parts of the plane that took off from Kabul airport today.
(Thread-video) pic.twitter.com/Pq7NKwgKPb

— Saira Mehreen Abbasi (@Saira_M_Abbasi) August 16, 2021

.@stand_for_all on why there seems to be more men than women trying to flee Afghanistan:
"It is not true that men are simply 'abandoning' women… More likely, they are setting things in motion to try to help women and children reach safety in the future."https://t.co/FLwTqQLSlf

— Govan Community Project 🧡 (@GovanCP) August 18, 2021

Much uncertainty still remains in Afghanistan amidst the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul.

Thousands of Americans are still trapped in the country.

And the Biden Administration seems clueless of how to rescue them.

This is the image Americans trapped in Afghanistan and all of our allies across the world are seeing and feeling. They know they can no longer count on America to actually be there for them when it matters. pic.twitter.com/tDSF7fYzQa

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 20, 2021

With tens of thousands of Americans and Afghans still trapped in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are struggling to speed up emergency evacuations. @RichardEngel gives us a firsthand look at what it takes to get out of Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/aZHaZ94HIr

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 20, 2021

And for the thousands of Afghani refugees that will eventually resettle in America, how does the Biden Administration plan on vetting them to ensure the safety of American citizens?