A Pentagon study estimates that 26,000 victims were sexually assaulted in the military during 2012. And the top Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual assault has been charged with attacking a woman in a parking lot.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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“What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together?”
— Donald Trump
We live in a society based on exploitation, this rabbit hole goes quite deep.
If the figure for sexual assaults by US military on US military amounts to some 26 000 in one year, one can’t help wondering what the figure for sexual assaults by US military personnel on non-military, and in particular, foreign persons amounts to. Anybody counting ?…
Henri
I doubt anyone cares. Rape is part of war, sometimes it’s even policy.
Ted, let me correct that for you : rape is an inevitable concomitant to war, should it happen to be perpetrated by «our» side on the population of a country «we» are occupying – if, however, done by the troops of «our» adversaries, it is a crime that stinks to heaven and which is to be punished by bombing and killing still more people….
Henri