Kim Katie USA
Years ago, someone very close to me (who worked alongside our troops and contractors in Afghanistan) came home shaken.
He sat me down and said, “We are not compatible with a culture where grown men think it’s normal to screw little boys in the butt. Everyone over there knows it happens, and we were told to pretend we didn’t hear the screams at night.” I thought he had to be exaggerating.
Then he showed me the declassified June 2017 SIGAR report.
Page after page of U.S. officials admitting they knew, admitting they did nothing, admitting they punished Americans who tried to stop it. That report has haunted me ever since.
Yesterday an Afghan we airlifted out of Kabul shot two National Guardsmen a few blocks from the White House. This isn’t “cultural difference.”
This is the price of importing evil and calling it compassion.
U.S. troops on American bases heard Afghan men and boys screaming while being raped at night.
They knew exactly what was happening.
They were told it wasn’t their job to stop it.
This is the “culture” we spent twenty years and trillions of dollars protecting.
And then we airlifted it here.
Then we airlifted tens of thousands of them here.
That word should have ended the entire program the day the report came out.
Instead, it was buried.
Until now.
This is the exact vetting process that brought Rahmanullah Lakanwal here.
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Years ago, someone very close to me (who worked alongside our troops and contractors in Afghanistan) came home shaken.
He sat me down and said, “We are not compatible with a culture where grown men think it’s normal to screw little boys in the butt. Everyone over there knows it happens, and we were told to pretend we didn’t hear the screams at night.” I thought he had to be exaggerating.
Then he showed me the declassified June 2017 SIGAR report.
Page after page of U.S. officials admitting they knew, admitting they did nothing, admitting they punished Americans who tried to stop it. That report has haunted me ever since.
Yesterday an Afghan we airlifted out of Kabul shot two National Guardsmen a few blocks from the White House. This isn’t “cultural difference.”
This is the price of importing evil and calling it compassion.
U.S. troops on American bases heard Afghan men and boys screaming while being raped at night.
They knew exactly what was happening.
They were told it wasn’t their job to stop it.
This is the “culture” we spent twenty years and trillions of dollars protecting.
And then we airlifted it here.
Then we airlifted tens of thousands of them here.
That word should have ended the entire program the day the report came out.
Instead, it was buried.
Until now.
In the absence of a specific request for assistance, DOD and State do not proactively vet every existing member of a unit receiving assistance. Instead, vetting occurs in two general circumstances. The first is when individual Afghans are selected for training in the United States. These individuals undergo standard Leahy vetting. The second is when a gross violation of human rights incident is reported and DOD and State attempt to identify responsible units and individuals. In both cases, State provides DOD with a list of any units and …Only after a scandal broke did anyone look.
This is the exact vetting process that brought Rahmanullah Lakanwal here.
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