God Help America
Did you know that US Government-Paid mercenaries at DynCorp are in the business of procuring young boys to be raped by Pashtun warlords? (John Nova Lomax, Houston Press, H/T Ravings of a Feral Genius.)
DynCorp officially denies that there was anything dirty going on.
You probably didn’t hear about it at the time because the Afghan government formallly asked that our government cover up the nothing-dirty-going-on, and our government seems to have complied.
But the story broke via WikiLeaks and The Guardian, and the US legacy media have, of course, been all over it. Here’s the New York Times’s coverage; here’s the Washington Post’s, and here’s CNN’s.
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At this point, nothing surprises me anymore. A few years ago this would have turned my hair white. Sadly, there is not a dark hair left on my head.
In defense of the U.S. Government-paid young boy procurers:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12/17/2713558/dyncorp-disputes-wikileaks-allegations.html
Call me skeptical, but it’s hard for me to believe an Afghan diplomat would have been so concerned about covering up an innocent dance performance at a party. Also hard to believe that such an event would cited as a reason to limit the US use of contractors in Afghanistan.