America’s 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan failed to root out bacha bazi, the Afghan custom of men molesting boys. Indeed, the practice, banned and severely punished by the Taliban, flourished during the NATO occupation, with much of the abuse meted out by U.S.-backed security forces. Our troops occasionally lashed out against those they caught molesting so-called dancing boys. But the brass insisted it was beyond America’s remit to change the Afghans’ despicable ways.
Perhaps the higher-ups figured that since Afghan culture has to some extent normalized pedophilia, reversing the trend would require greater exertion than already-beleaguered Western forces in Afghanistan could muster. It’s a thought worth keeping in mind as sexual revolutionaries in the West aggressively push to rob children of their innocence and to rebrand pedophilia positively, all in the name of autonomy and identity.
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