Page 1 Roundup (08/22)

The Daily News: John Kelly's gonna give Donny a dressing down for this!

They toned it down for the late edition, sadly / Read HERE.

The New York Post: His "doctrine" is no plan, all emotion.

The New York Times: The war Trump lambasted Obama for still being in is about to get a lot longer

The Wall Street Journal: When You Already Have 35 Political Parties, What’s 63 More?

Page 1 Roundup (12/22)

It's always sad when American military personnel are killed, but it's particularly galling that this man had fought in Afghanistan before and was killed AFTER we were supposed to be completely out of there. When will this ever end?

U.S. Soldiers Ordered to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies

Great -- and shocking, to me at least -- reporting by The New York Times about yet another so-called "cultural" difference (sigh) getting in the way of Americans' foolish attempt at nation building:

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records. 

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and doing little when they began abusing children. 

“The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.” 

After the beating, the Army relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has since left the military.

Read the full story HERE.

UPDATE:

A colleague just told me about a particularly disturbing episode of "Frontline" that addressed the vile topic. More HERE.