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Afghanistan
$1 TRILLION worth of US failures in Afghanistan: DOD report tears into ‘mind-boggling' mistakes from Bush to Biden, the US funneling money into corruption and advisors using 'American TV shows' for inspiration
2021-08-18
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The US has now spent $837 billion on warfighting and $145 billion in Afghanistan, and 2,443 American troops and 66,000 Afghan troops were killed

  • One former senior Defense official told the watchdog: 'When you look at how much we spent and what we got for it, it's mind boggling'

  • The analysis said that the reconstruction effort 'could be described as 20 one-year reconstruction efforts, rather than one 20-year effort'

  • 'Billions of reconstruction dollars were wasted as projects went unused or fell into disrepair,' the report said, noting rampant corruption

  • It found that US officials did not understand how their intervention was being accepted socially and culturally
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  Ummm... yassuh and yassuh. Also...

Afghanistan, refuge of sheiks,
Of lofty Mohammedan piques,
Of men who find joys
In their... faith! And their boys?
Well, they probably welcomed the Greeks.
Posted by: Spavise the Furry8602   2021-08-18 22:23  

#16  I wonder if anybody else has noted that the overwhelming majority of traditional Americans have f=been treated like nothing more than field hands on the Tax Farm Plantation that is America, an d that the Big House Masters and house "servants" are all far more well treated and privileged than s field hands. Had enough yet?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-08-18 18:14  

#15  ^In Afghanistan it's perfectly OK.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2021-08-18 15:14  

#14  Our embassy was flying a pride flag. What else do you need to know?
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-08-18 14:26  

#13  More wealth extracted from the working American to be fed to the elites.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-08-18 14:05  

#12  The money all went somewhere. Afghanistan was just the funnel.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-18 13:36  

#11  #8 a beloved media propaganda image has been smashed. Happy day...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-18 12:17  

#10  No matter how badly you think the money was wasted, somebody always gets it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-08-18 12:11  

#9  Well, somebody got the money. A feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-08-18 12:10  

#8  
Posted by: Phaque Anguish4404   2021-08-18 10:12  

#7  ^Octo
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-08-18 09:26  

#6  * HMX
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-18 09:20  

#5  ^ Good. Only with more tanks and HEX.


But hear ye now the DOD schpiel,
written by some REMF insect.
They'd like to spend more dollars
now and loudly introspect.
Men who'd sell you the death o' yer
dreams, you ain't circumspect.
"Mr. Fancy Five Star! WTF was this?"
"Oh, we knew how it ends, in retrospect."
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-18 09:19  

#4  Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an offer from then-US secretary of state John Kerry to visit Afghanistan as a model for a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

“In 2013,” Netanyahu wrote, Kerry “invited me on a secret visit to Afghanistan to see, in his words, how the US established a local military force that can stand up to terror on its own.”

We'll go with the Myanmar solution.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-08-18 08:48  

#3  By most accounts, the effort was doomed from the start. DoD and OGA (Other Government Agency) and contractor budgets swelled to unheard of levels. Kicking the can down the road for 20 years simply postponed the inevitable.

"War is our business, and business is good."
~ Unk
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-18 07:38  

#2  Over $7 trillion dollars (circa 2000) spent on the "War on Poverty". Same effect, so the authors of that now blame everyone and everything else for its lack of major success. They call it Critical Race Theory.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-08-18 06:23  

#1  The Afghanistan strategy was exposed as total lies in a report by the Washington Post in 2018. I guess everyone forgot.
Posted by: Slomorong Thraiger7030   2021-08-18 05:47  

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