Major Joshua Mast

research okay well what are the risk factors you know again like you make legal advice based on facts so if the commander executes and gives this infant with a fractured skull and a fractured femur to an afghan institution in 2019 afghanistan what does that look like that's what i wanted to know like and i didn't know like i i was new in country i hadn't really studied

the the the environment like for children in afghanistan but i as i'm researching on the embassy's website and you know the state department's got a lot of like formal reports to congress over these types of things like trafficking in persons or the risk factors in afghanistan so i'm pulling like agency level study reports to congress and it's scaring the bejesus out of me it's saying that there's systemic child sexual abuse in every province in afghanistan

the the the environment like for children in afghanistan but i as i'm researching on the embassy's website and you know the state department's got a lot of like formal reports to congress over these types of things like trafficking in persons or the risk factors in afghanistan so i'm pulling like agency level study reports to congress and it's scaring the bejesus out of me it's saying that there's systemic child sexual abuse in every province in afghanistan

the the the environment like for children in afghanistan but i as i'm researching on the embassy's website and you know the state department's got a lot of like formal reports to congress over these types of things like trafficking in persons or the risk factors in afghanistan so i'm pulling like agency level study reports to congress and it's scaring the bejesus out of me it's saying that there's systemic child sexual abuse in every province in afghanistan

There's even a, if your audience is familiar with Bachi Bazi, there's a practice dating back thousands of years in that region of dressing, and this is somewhat graphic if there's children listening, but dressing up male children as females and they dance and they sexually molest these children. And that was happening systemically. And, you know, to be honest,

There's even a, if your audience is familiar with Bachi Bazi, there's a practice dating back thousands of years in that region of dressing, and this is somewhat graphic if there's children listening, but dressing up male children as females and they dance and they sexually molest these children. And that was happening systemically. And, you know, to be honest,

There's even a, if your audience is familiar with Bachi Bazi, there's a practice dating back thousands of years in that region of dressing, and this is somewhat graphic if there's children listening, but dressing up male children as females and they dance and they sexually molest these children. And that was happening systemically. And, you know, to be honest,

I had been trained like, hey, there's child molestation is part of the culture. It's how it is here. It is how it is there. And I'm not saying that's all Afghans. I've got one of my best friends is an Afghan. And I've got so many friends that we've gotten out through the evacuation. It's very common. It is. There's good and bad people everywhere on earth.

I had been trained like, hey, there's child molestation is part of the culture. It's how it is here. It is how it is there. And I'm not saying that's all Afghans. I've got one of my best friends is an Afghan. And I've got so many friends that we've gotten out through the evacuation. It's very common. It is. There's good and bad people everywhere on earth.

I had been trained like, hey, there's child molestation is part of the culture. It's how it is here. It is how it is there. And I'm not saying that's all Afghans. I've got one of my best friends is an Afghan. And I've got so many friends that we've gotten out through the evacuation. It's very common. It is. There's good and bad people everywhere on earth.

But in this particular location, there's some evil people. and um one of the things that bothered me is that we were advised by state department like oh that's not illegal here like it's just you know got to make deal with it and for a decade you have american service members who have put you know some of these uh people in power that

But in this particular location, there's some evil people. and um one of the things that bothered me is that we were advised by state department like oh that's not illegal here like it's just you know got to make deal with it and for a decade you have american service members who have put you know some of these uh people in power that

But in this particular location, there's some evil people. and um one of the things that bothered me is that we were advised by state department like oh that's not illegal here like it's just you know got to make deal with it and for a decade you have american service members who have put you know some of these uh people in power that

and having to allow child rape on our installations and saying, it's just part of their thing, like you can't do anything about it. And like that mentality to me is just the antithesis of what we should be about as Americans, because that's wrong everywhere on the globe. And we came downrange to represent this uniform.

and having to allow child rape on our installations and saying, it's just part of their thing, like you can't do anything about it. And like that mentality to me is just the antithesis of what we should be about as Americans, because that's wrong everywhere on the globe. And we came downrange to represent this uniform.

and having to allow child rape on our installations and saying, it's just part of their thing, like you can't do anything about it. And like that mentality to me is just the antithesis of what we should be about as Americans, because that's wrong everywhere on the globe. And we came downrange to represent this uniform.

And if we're enabling child rape on our basis, that's not a hard call to say, hey, this is wrong. We're going to lose moral high ground. How are we going to have the moral high ground to intervene as a country on good causes if we permit evil when we get there?

And if we're enabling child rape on our basis, that's not a hard call to say, hey, this is wrong. We're going to lose moral high ground. How are we going to have the moral high ground to intervene as a country on good causes if we permit evil when we get there?

And if we're enabling child rape on our basis, that's not a hard call to say, hey, this is wrong. We're going to lose moral high ground. How are we going to have the moral high ground to intervene as a country on good causes if we permit evil when we get there?

And so in 2019, after that, however long we've been in Afghanistan, finally, through our influence, we changed the law in Afghanistan and it became illegal. And do you know how many people they prosecuted that year? Three. And in our office, we did the Leahy vetting.