The U.S. soldiers and officers on the front lines very much wanted to do something about cases like this.U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
New York Times, Joseph Goldstein, Sept. 20, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/w...ld-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html
' . . . In September 2011, an Afghan woman, visibly bruised, showed up at an American base with her son, who was limping. One of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had abducted the boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chained to his bed, the woman explained. When she sought her son’s return, she herself was beaten. Her son had eventually been released, but she was afraid it would happen again, she told the Americans on the base. . . '
But apparently, the Pentagon made an initial clumsy decision that sex between grown men and teenage boys was part of the culture of Afghanistan and thus we weren't going to do anything about it.
This has to be one of the all-time examples, should be written about in business textbooks, of sticking with an abstract decision when the actual facts are very much running in the opposite direction.