As a matter of fact I've read it now just to keep you lot happy and it's exactly the kind of ignorant rose-tinted nonsense I was expecting... all that eulogising about the landscape when he shouldn't even be there. Smiles on girls faces? Not the ones who have lost their parents thanks to his interfering attitude. So because he thinks all cultures should adopt Western values we now have the right to invade and occupy all peoples who are at a different stage of social evolution? Who shall we invade next Papua New Guinea? No, I know, Saudi Arabia! What a twit. No wonder you lot want to go 'round invading everyone being taken in by that load of baloney. Did anyone invade the US to enforce racial or sexual equality? Friedman can get right out of Afghanistan, go home and mind his own business.
And these so called rape , has not been proven yet , no one is arrested or even questioned = It's still allegations
That's because in the United States rape can be a turned into a state secret and prosecutions blocked to avoid embarrassment. Mag Gen Taguba said that the rape accounts were credible and included one in his report where a minor was pinned down and attacked at gunpoint:
“I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in the little kid’s ***…. and the female soldier was taking pictures.”
Crimes such as that photographed and collated by US personnel as having occurred at facilities like as Abu Ghraib and Bagram as well as the first batch that were made public afford the right of self-defence.