You Heard "Arabian Dancing Boys". Wrong Country. What Nine Years of U.S. Government Reports Recorded in Afghanistan Says About What Governments Did Not Do.

You may have heard the phrase "Arabian dancing boys". It puts this practice among Arabs. I looked for the post behind it and could not find it. But I found the record, and the record says otherwise. In 2020 the U.S. State Department found "a government policy or pattern of sexual slavery in government compounds" in Afghanistan, a country Washington was then paying to defend. It wrote that the Afghan government "has never prosecuted a police officer" for it; its 2021 report recorded the first seven police officers convicted of it, in one case. Two U.S. Green Berets who beat up an accused commander in 2011 were disciplined for the assault. The Pentagon's own inspector found that U.S. troops were given no training on reporting child sexual abuse before 2015. And the State Department's report of October 2026 says the Taliban have still reported no investigations.