Of all the sickening aspects of the American invasion of Afghanistan and the corrupt government we're supporting there, a Frontline report recently exposed the fact that young boys are turned into sex slaves for the delight of wealthy warlords and businessmen. It's called bacha bazi. Where is the Taliban when we need them? I'm starting to think that the Taliban regime of strictly enforced morality is just what is called for in this country of yahoos and perverts.
Consider that its economy is based on the export of drugs, its leader is a corrupt, probable drug addict himself who has said he wants to join the Taliban (what? to clean up?), and the US is killing numerous civilians for every Taliban killed. This is some sick shit as Miles Davis used to say. All the money the US is wasting in this godforsaken hellhole to do what? Help the "good people" form a democratic government? You've got to be kidding.
Here's some comments from the Frontline website regarding the Dancing Boys report:
Sodom and Gomorrah! I cannot comprehend how a practice like this can continue in this century. Thank you Frontline for airing this show, please continue to follow this despicable practice there. Maybe if enough attention is bought to it something can be done to stop this. Although I cannot see how we can effect a change for that or the plight of the women there. The government is so corrupt and the country so poor it needs extreme intervention and I can't see any civilized countries willing to spend the time or money to help these poor suffering people. It would be awesome if some of our celebrities would get involved as they do in Africa and other struggling countries. That would certainly reach a wider audience and maybe bring in some funding to help. I'd be willing to donate if I could know that some progress was being made.
God Bless the Children.
I am utterly and completely devastated by this, it was too painful to watch. This is too depressing. I can't believe these disgusting sick warlords, they really need to be put to death.
This needs to be shown to the Karazi government, and to the governments of Nato, this is what we are fighting to protect? I am pretty sure all those Warlords in this video are most likely our allies, or the allies of the Karzai government.
How can we call claim to be civilized if we can't even protect the most innocent amongst us? Catholic priests, Afghan warlords, people who do things like that to children are monsters in every sense of the word and need to be wiped out.
The most disturbing and upsetting thing I have ever seen on tv, seeing a little boy dragged into a car and taken away to a life of abuse and sexual slavery. What I find hard to understand is that the pedophile master who claimed that he owned between 2000 and 3000 boys, is considered a pillar of the community and was seen going to the mosque on Friday to pray. Still what I find even harder to understand is that parents sell their young children knowing full well what will happen to them simply because they are poor and need the money!!! Nothing can justify the sacrifice of your own children, you are supposed to do the sacrifice for them. I pray Allah to save those poor boys from their living hell.
I was so deeply disturbed by this program, but more so by the fact that I can't tell myself "It's just TV." This actually takes place, and for the life of me I don't understand how those men would rather abuse the young boys of their friends and neighbors while hiding their women away. How can they rationalize what they do? Sick.
I can't believe that the need of money make fathers put their children into such situations. Is hunger the key factor for a human being to respond in that way with their little kids? An experience like that will destroy the child for the rest of his life. I'm crying and praying for all the children that are involved.
Frontline continues it's cutting edge investigative reporting. It's the best on television. The networks seem to have abandoned reporting of such high caliber. I had no idea that this issue existed. It makes me wonder why we are in Afghanistan. I wonder why we are trying to help a nation that would allow this barbaric practice. Is there no rule of law in that country? I guess I am merely naive. I suspect that there are abusers of children throughout the the world in both so-called civilized nations as well as third world countries. Poverty can open doors for abuse anywhere on the planet. Frontline has brought this to the attention of good people everywhere. I only hope that we can bring this abominable practice to an end. Awareness is the first step. Frontline has done it's job.
And the comments continue. Most people had a strong sense of revulsion at the sickness and depravity of human parents selling their children to rich pedophiles for a life of degradation and humiliation. Isn't there enough evil in the world, and now this? And to think that the US is complicit in screwing around in a country and fighting the Taliban who, whatever else you want to say about them, cracked down on this practice, something Karzai isn't willing to do. The corruption in this part of the world is unimaginable. The US should get out of Afghanistan now and stop trying to bring "freedom" and "democracy" there. It is giving "freedom" and "democracy" bad names.
If the US wants to help the people of Afghanistan, a military invasion is not the way to do it. If it wants to target bad guys, killing innocents in order to do it is unacceptable. Rather it would be preferable to let assassination teams go in on the ground and take out just the targets - not a bunch of innocent civilians at the same time. What is the US thinking? I hope Obama sees this documentary and gets sick to his stomach over the depravity and perversion that US policies are complicit in since we are fighting the one group who outlawed this practice. I'm starting to think that the Taliban is just what Afghanistan needs - some strong moral agent who cracks down on corruption even if their policies seem too strict and oppressive by western standards.
And it makes me sick to think of the money the US is wasting there at a time when the national debt is reaching astronomical proportions.
