Should the U.S. ignore this clear abuse of rights ?

Pam Gomez

Since the US has forces in Afghanistan there is always something wrong where the military has to be involved.It doesn’t matter in what way the US military has their business in the problem. But this time the presence of the army in this situation was the contrary of what people would think like a bombing or an attack or even the case saving lives.

I was reading through the New York Times this article about how authorities in Afghanistan are having this cult where they dress boys as girls and make them dance where this lead to a tragic end as the authorities rape this boys. All this for simple entertainment, two american soldiers who lived in the country decided to act about it, like they were trained to defend who can and save the lives they can. This is what somebody who can and notices this will try to do, doesn’t matter if they are soldier or other kind of authority.

The issue has been on the news for a couple of days now this week and I see over and over the U.S addressing the issue but not doing something. The Pentagon said they did not gave orders to ignore any kind of abuse to human rights. But why haven’t been on the news that this is being solved, that we are taking care of this awful group of people. The Afghan authorities declare this is part of their cultural difference from the Westerns. Even thought people from Afghanistan are against this practice. So neither the local people or the foreigns like this, the question is why aren’t the U.S doing something ? The thing is the United States is all pro human rights, but why they are not doing something in this situation. Well they are trying to protect the relationship Afghanistan and the U.S have until now. Which means the won’t do something because it is not in the best interest of America. This gives the idea that even though we like fight for the human rights such as now the gay marriage, that we never fight for something if it does not represents a good possible outcome for the American government.

I belivie that this could help really well to the situation where people in Afghanistan hate the US could turn and believe we are fighting for their rights too not against them. If we show that afghanis that we care about the children tat are being raped, who are the sons of somebody in the city, will show we care and they’ll would dislike the country less than they will do if we keep ignoring this situation as we have being doing so far. With the power this country posses there is certainly somethings that can be done. Such as using the evidence that is with in our power and the people against the problem and address it to the United Nation. But certainly the U.S should take a chance to prove the have more than war interest with in Afghanistan and make the relationship between countries better starting with the defence of the rights of the boys.