Afghanistan's Descent »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 month, 1 week agoA new book by one of the most respected journalists of Afghanistan and Pakistan contends that the years between 2002 and 2007 were as crucial to the stability of the region as they were squandered by the Bush administration.
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hyperbola1 month, 1 week ago
... Most of the money for reconstruction didn't reach the Afghan people. By 2005, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that a small non-government organization built 40 schools in Afghanistan in 2004, spending, at most, only $20,000 on each -- while contractors for the U.S. development agency USAID built only eight schools at four times the cost.
As much as U.S. officials lamented corruption in Afghanistan -- which is real and virulent -- they ignored corruption and politicization in their own government. "In keeping with prevailing views in the Republican Party," Rashid wites, "USAID became a source of funds for Christian fundamentalist NGOs [non-government organizations] active in the Muslim world -- giving them $57 million between 2001 and 2005 out of a total of $390 million distributed to all NGOs." ...
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