And why did they cover it up? They were just following orders.
Because their bosses, who are working for you, told them to.
And the media and the military, and Obama, and the GOP and pretty much everyone, has known about it FOR YEARS.
And it's still going on today.
Systematic child rape, child slavery and worse, often on US military bases... and when a troops DID speak out, they were punished.
If you've ever sat in a WW2 history class, you have been told that Germans tried at Nuremberg weren't forgiven for "just following orders," even when their choices were follow orders or punishment... and yet, most people will pity the troops, because of the difficult position they're in...
Imagine your 8 year old son was taken to a US military base and raped, for fun... would you feel sorry for the Americans guarding the rapists? Would you work with them in good faith?
Sometimes realpolitik isn't good enough - this is one of those times.
Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/...
http://video.pbs.org/...
And if you wanna REALLY be depressed, it's gotten worse since we showed up, because the Taliban thought it was a sin, and had cut down on it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...