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Originally Posted by TheStripey1
Now this is a different story and not at all connected with the 70 year old brothels that the GIs visited...
Here we can agree... the pedophiles that traffic in those locales should be prosecuted. No doubt about it. Incarcerated too... in their prisons...
But what if anything does this have to do with the american military?
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Very little beyond the fact that I was struck by the irony of a largely ignored tragic and very public sex traffic in that area, and the rising use of rape as a war tactic - and the fact that it took 60 years for the US to officially acknowledge complicity in systematic rape during the war there - 60 freakin years.
There are times when I see an issue that trancends political parties, and I'm always curious how far from their knee jerk response other posters will go. Mostly I see responses from the paranoid right here - anything that requires an apology from America must be something it's really all right to do!
It's interesting that so many of you guys seem to not give two hoots about this form of abuse - unless a boy is raped. It doesn't give me much hope that the current situation will ever be a priority - nor do a lot of the responses. Not divisive enough to be a wedge issue, nor easy enough to solve to be a sound bite. Won't become part of the pod people's discussion.
Maybe in 60 years we will notice the current problems.
