Britian's Aid Program In Afghanistan Has Been A Disaster

Whittled down: 40 per cent of aid to Afghanistan is said to be syphoned off by foreign contractors

Wasted! £1.6bn Of Aid To Afghanistan: Report Finds Opium Production Trebled In A Decade -- Daily Mail

* Study says £20m 'rural development programme' produced little change
* More than 500,000 acres of land are now devoted to opium cultivation
* Another £36m project created only two thirds of the 10,000 jobs it promised

Much of the £1.6billion sent in aid to Afghanistan by Britain since 2006 has been wasted, a major report warns today.

The Independent Commission for Aid Impact says that much of the programme to cut opium production has ‘performed poorly’, with little monitoring of value for money.

The aid watchdog delivers a withering verdict on the Department for International Development’s efforts to divert economic activity away from the cultivation of opium, much of which ends up on Britain’s streets.

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My Comment: If this report is even half true .... this aid program deserves to be killed yesterday.