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[quote=Anonymous]And another comment in the nytimes from a vet:

The Times is absolutely correct in its indignation toward the practice of sexual slavery in Afghanistan. The Times misses one key point:[b] this practice was explicitly upheld by American force. These militia commanders were not praying upon their own children, but the children of the villages they were supposed to protect. If, and often when, these villages rose up against this and other corrupt behavior, they were branded Taliban and crushed by the might of the U.S. military. [/b][u]

As an Afghan vet, it was precisely this use of force to sustain corrupt rapist in positions of power that turned me against the war. No amount of killing is going to force people to accept injustices as severe as the rape of their own children. In fact, it it precisely this rapacious behavior that Mullah Mohammed Omar rose against and created the Modern Taliban in the first place. Why we facilited the same injustice that drove the Taliban's creation as part of the counterinsurgency campaign is nothing short of failure. We knew it.[/quote]

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