I have heard a few references to this article this past couple of weeks. It reminds me of the fact Mullah Omar's death (click here) wasn't known for two years. The USA is suppose to have intelligence about such events. There is no excuse for that.
How much do we know about Afghanistan is actually fact and not ancient and dusty news. We never hear from any Afghan leaders. We never hear from Iraq's leaders. The USA knows next to nothing, but, we are sending soldiers and money because Congress simply can't let go.
How much do we know about Afghanistan is actually fact and not ancient and dusty news. We never hear from any Afghan leaders. We never hear from Iraq's leaders. The USA knows next to nothing, but, we are sending soldiers and money because Congress simply can't let go.
I heard today, the Republican majority wants to cut the USA budget by $400 billion. Will that FINALLY end the wasteful and pork spending in Afghanistan?
July 13, 2016
By Carol J. Williams
The United States (click here) has now spent more on the reconstruction of Afghanistan than it did on the Marshall Plan that lifted Western Europe from the ruins of World War II. But it can expect far less return on its investment in the still-unstable Central Asian nation, a Pentagon auditor reports.
July 13, 2016
By Carol J. Williams
The United States (click here) has now spent more on the reconstruction of Afghanistan than it did on the Marshall Plan that lifted Western Europe from the ruins of World War II. But it can expect far less return on its investment in the still-unstable Central Asian nation, a Pentagon auditor reports.
Afghanistan is mired in political crisis and will remain dependent on foreign donors, primarily the United States, for years to come, writes John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, in his latest quarterly report to Congress.
U.S. spending on the Afghanistan nation-building project over the last dozen years now exceeds $104 billion, surpassing the $103.4 billion current-dollar value of Marshall Plan expenditures, which helped rebuild European nations after World War II. The spending helped a vanquished Germany emerge as the economic engine of Western Europe.
"SIGAR calculates that by the end of 2014, the United States will have committed more funds to reconstruct Afghanistan, in inflation-adjusted terms, than it spent on 16 European countries after World War II under the Marshall Plan," says the report.
The 259-page account features a photograph of a pile of metal frames from school furniture in Nangarhar province from which the wood was stripped and burned for heat....
U.S. spending on the Afghanistan nation-building project over the last dozen years now exceeds $104 billion, surpassing the $103.4 billion current-dollar value of Marshall Plan expenditures, which helped rebuild European nations after World War II. The spending helped a vanquished Germany emerge as the economic engine of Western Europe.
"SIGAR calculates that by the end of 2014, the United States will have committed more funds to reconstruct Afghanistan, in inflation-adjusted terms, than it spent on 16 European countries after World War II under the Marshall Plan," says the report.
The 259-page account features a photograph of a pile of metal frames from school furniture in Nangarhar province from which the wood was stripped and burned for heat....
