Construction site of the Ministry of Defense in Afghanistan. The United States is spending $92 million to build Afghanistan a new "Pentagon," a massive, five-story military headquarters with domed rooves and a high-tech basement command center that will link Afghan generals with their troops fighting Taliban across the country. NATO Training Mission Afghanistan
US Plans To Monitor Afghanistan Relief Projects Remotely -- Stars and Stripes/Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. military presence dwindles in Afghanistan, officials are finalizing a $200-million plan to use smartphones, GPS-enabled cameras and satellite imagery to monitor relief projects that will continue in areas deemed too remote or unsafe for Americans to visit.
The proposal underscores the rapidly diminishing American footprint in Afghanistan after nearly 12 years of war, and signals that more of the massive U.S. reconstruction effort there — long plagued by waste and weak oversight — will be monitored by Afghans, with U.S. officials forced to supervise from a distance.
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My Comment: Afghanistan is one of the most corrupt countries in the world .... the idea that you can monitor a project from thousands of miles away is .... to put it bluntly .... utterly ridiculous. These projects deserve zero funding .... but with so many interests in Washington (and Kabul) dependent on making money in Afghanistan, I doubt that this spigot is going to be closed.
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