Article from Breitbart by Kristina Wong.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) last week tried to block billions in U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the Afghan military and police forces unless its’ units stopped sexually abusing young boys, but he was opposed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders.
During a committee business meeting last Wednesday considering the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, Paul proposed an amendment to withhold all U.S. funding for all Afghan security forces unless the U.S. government’s watchdog in Afghanistan could verify those forces were not using children as child soldiers or sex slaves.
The U.S. is slated to provide Afghan security forces — military and police — with $4.92 billion in 2019 for equipment, training, supplies, services, infrastructure repair and other funding.
Paul told other members, according to a transcript of the business meeting first obtained by Breitbart News: “I think that the committee is right to be gravely concerned with sexual trafficking and abuse of young people around the world in a variety of countries. I think we shouldn’t turn a blind eye towards when our allies are responsible for this, as well.”
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The finer points, local custom and usage included, Uncle Sap and American Taxpayers can always be tapped for a few odd billion.
Governments turn a blind eye and deaf ears when the outcome serves they’re purpose. The should be ashamed of themselves that is if they had any morals.
The problem is that Mohammed their prophet gives them permission to have sex with boys and girls as long as the father is paid. Kids are only as good as long as they grow up following the indoctrination of Islam. Girls can be given to a man who likes a girl and must marry her when she reaches 11 or return the kid to her father. Using children over three for sex is done with the law of Mohammed. It originally helped his wars of conquering land for Islam having boys available to his soldiers to keep his army happy. They travel better and do not get pregnant. Maybe Islam countries can be talked into changing their culture but I really believe it can only be done through force like stopping the funeral practice of burning of wives when their husbands died so the man would have his wife to take care of him was stopped in India through force when the British military guy in charge put up a gallows and told the Indian men they could continue burning to death the wives so they could join their husbands but the British law is if a woman or man is burned to death for any purpose the one doing the burning hangs on the gallows he pointed to. That stopped that funeral practice but still today in India many men wanting a divorce quickly buy gas and set their wife on fire instead of paying to return their wife to her family. Culture dies hard and sometimes a cultural thing can be publicly stopped but it still is carried on in another way. Maybe to save children it is worth war by stopping the money but this USA has a habit of not following up on a long term problem solving, We stop fighting for important stuff the second this country gets tired and the peace nuts/opposition yells loud enough. When you are working with a nasty culture control like Islam you would have to change the thinking of the Imans and their total power lies in Mohammad’s teachings.
Is it because we have too many pedis in the senate?