Let's not pretend we gave them a better option. To add some color (this isn't the only abuse but the most obvious one, particularly to western audiences): A tactic that the Taliban used to great effect was to lure collition aligned forces by having young boys stand on street corners and when the US backed Afghan police went to rape the child, ambush them.
> "The Taliban are sending boys — beautiful boys, handsome boys — to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen," said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, who was Uruzgan's police chief until he was removed in a security reshuffle in April amid worsening violence.[0]
US servicemen have come home with PTSD, not from combat but having to share a hotel with US aligned Afghans and hearing young boys be repeatedly raped in the next room. Those who spoke up were punished.[1]
Step into their shoes, a foreign invader installs pedophiles to run your government and rape your sons. You expect them to support it? Personally I'd start building IEDs.
> "The Taliban are sending boys — beautiful boys, handsome boys — to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen," said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, who was Uruzgan's police chief until he was removed in a security reshuffle in April amid worsening violence.[0]
US servicemen have come home with PTSD, not from combat but having to share a hotel with US aligned Afghans and hearing young boys be repeatedly raped in the next room. Those who spoke up were punished.[1]
Step into their shoes, a foreign invader installs pedophiles to run your government and rape your sons. You expect them to support it? Personally I'd start building IEDs.
[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/afp-taliban-use-honey-trap-b...
[1]https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/american-militar...
[additional reading]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi