A Look At How Western Aid In Afghanistan Has Been Wasted

Here’s How The Military Wasted Your Money In Afghanistan -- Matthew Gault, War Is Boring

Unfinished projects, unnecessary equipment, rampant corruption.

American taxpayers have spent more than $100 billion on thousands of reconstruction projects in Afghanistan—everything from new prisons, bases and barracks to weapons and airplanes for Afghan security forces.

The idea was that the U.S. would leave Afghanistan in a better state than it found it. The reality is that military and civilian officials wasted billions of dollars in reconstruction funds on incomplete, botched and unnecessary projects.

The Pentagon blew $7.6 billion fighting a war on opium, but today Afghanistan’s poppy crop is bigger than ever. The U.S. Air Force bought half a billion dollars worth of transport planes—then scrapped them for six cents a pound.

The Pentagon spent five years and $20 million renovating a dilapidated Soviet-era prison. The project still isn’t finished and the contractors now face corruption charges.

And the list of wasteful projects goes on.

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My Comment: I have always argued that unless the culture changes .... even if you pump in $1 trillion dollars .... it would still get wasted and/or stolen.