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Hollie McKay, Fox News: How US wasted billions on absurd errors in Afghanistan war
Debates continue over US war investment.
For almost two decades, the U.S. military has siphoned much blood, sweat, and tears into fighting the insurgencies littering Afghanistan.
In the coming weeks, the Pentagon plans to accelerate the troop drawdown from 4,500 to 2,500 under orders from President Trump – leaving behind a bleak picture of a struggling country beleaguered by nearly daily attacks, bullet-pockmarked buildings and an ailing economy.
Throughout the years of the Afghan war effort, American taxpayers have footed the bill – on average about $3,000 each – with a comprehensive price tag succeeding $1 trillion. Roughly $138 billion in taxpayer dollars alone have been disseminated for Afghan relief and reconstruction.
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WNU Editor: And this waste continues.
4 comments:
How much aid was given out by non-military organizations?
What did the paragons of virtue from Foggy Bottom, who for the most part do not bleed, do to ensure there was minimal waste?
If the denizens of Foggy Bottom cannot get it right in 19 years, why do they yammer about staying , when they are not putting their precious hineys on the line as trigger pullers?
Every cent spent on the middle East wars was a waste. Completely and unequivocally.
Trump admin offered $700M to 9/11 victims to save Sudan deal
Read the article next time Fred.
"While Osama bin Laden was based in Sudan for years, it's not clear the Sudanese government aided or facilitated the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 Commission, the independent body that investigated the attacks, said in its 2004 report, "It appears that the Sudanese government expropriated all his assets; he left Sudan with practically nothing. Nor were bin Ladin's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda."
You are either a really, really extra dumb liberal Jew or you are not Fred, but some troll that uses his name.
Actually Trump is cleaning up Billy Clinton mess at Al Shifa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory
"Bill Clinton’s Act of Terrorism"
BY NATHAN J. ROBINSON
"In 1998, Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of a medicine factory in Sudan. The country has yet to recover."
"Sudan has, according to President Donald Trump, agreed to pay compensation for its role in the east African US embassy bombings. Surely then the US should pay Sudan reparations for its bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical facility?"
Bin Laden left Sudan in 1996 and Bubba Clinton hit Sudan in 1998. Makes sense.
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