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As The US Spent $1.5 Million A Day To “Fight” Afghan Heroin Production, Heroin Output Quadrupled
For 16 years, the US has dumped $1.5 million a day into Afghanistan to fight heroin production and in that time, heroin production has more than quadrupled. On November 5 yet another US soldier was killed by a member of Afghanistan’s military forces, as the country continues to be wracked by violence in its seventeenth year of Read More…
Reality Check: Millions Wasted “Rebuilding” Afghanistan
Seventeen years of wasted taxpayer money and government mismanagement: millions of U.S. dollars spent on projects to rebuild Afghanistan that have not helped the Afghan people. In some cases, these projects actually put Afghans in danger. A new report shows that the U.S. has spent some $60 million on building totally useless power lines in Read More…
152 Afghan Troops Run Away While In US For Training
A new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warns that the US efforts to bring Afghan troops to America for training have been greatly undermined by the “unacceptably high” number of Afghan troops who run away as soon as they arrive. Some 13% of Afghan trainees go missing, with the majority Read More…