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Posted 9 months ago|1 comment|213 views
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softbabe44
Vancouver, WA
What happened to 360 m dollars it was lost to afghan crooks,insurgents so do we have to send 360 m more this is after they looked at and examined hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan the military estimates 360m in us tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led-coalition has spent nearly a decade battling the Taliban criminals and power brokers with ties to both the losses underscore the challenges the us and it's international partners face in over coming corruption in Afghanistan a central part of the Obama administration's strategy has been to award us financed contracts to afghan businesses to help improve quality of life and stoke the country's economy but until a special task force assembled by Gen David Petraeus began it's investigation last year the coalition had little visibility into the connections network many afghan companies and their vast network of subcontractors had with insurgents and criminals-groups military officials call malign actors process known reverse money laundering payments from the us pass through companies hired by the military for transportation,construction, power projects fuel and other services businesses and individuals with ties to the insurgency or criminals networks according to interviews and task force documents obtained by the ap funds begin as clean monies per document then through direct payments or through the flow of funds then gone through subcontractor network the monies then become tainted so what's everybody get from this?
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Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
9 months ago: I am glad that Obama is fighting the corruption. Afghanistan is considered the # 1 most corrupt government in the world. It is hard to see what, if anything, we are getting out of being there, but we sort of have a responsibility.

We started Al Queda and helped the other mujahadeen to fight the Russians, and when the Russians left we abandoned Afghanistan, which had been totally destroyed.

If we had helped them build their infrastructure, power, water, sewer, roads, then the Taliban would not have been able to take over. Now we are trying to do that, but it is such a big country we can't control all development projects so a lot of that money finds it's way to the bad guys.

Quit or stick around forever until they become advanced enough to be able to do stuff without bribery.

We should learn how to govern our own nation without bribery before we try to impose our system on others. Here the people and corporations with the money buy the politicians and get all the tax breaks, and the common people are not heard. Are we that much better?

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