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Afghanistan
The U.S. militarized Afghanistan's police force, funneling millions of dollars to brutal WARLORDS as officials ignored human right abuses, according to watchdog's damning report on America's 20-year war
2022-06-04
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Damning new report condemns U.S.-led $21 billion effort to build Afghan police

  • It concludes that putting the Pentagon in charge of the plan meant police were focused on fighting the Taliban rather than tackling crime

  • That empowered warlords, while U.S. officials ignored human rights abuse

  • The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction also concludes the strategy turned Afghans off the police and gave the Taliban inroads
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Honestly, does anybody think they were *nice* before we got there?
Posted by: magpie   2022-06-04 14:41  

#3  US gummint is congenitally attracted to the worst kind of thug. It's what they aspire to be themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-04 14:22  

#2  It's unfortunate the Inspector General hadn't been tasked with the job instead of the actual people who were put in charge. In other words, it's the typical BS after-action report. People who couldn't find their rear ends with both hands and a flashlight are given the job of figuring out how a complicated mission went wrong.

Kamil Galeev got it right. People who have no idea how to do something are asked to figure out how something should have been done. The end result? Gibberish tied up neatly with a bow.

It's a lot like Kissinger in action. The guy writes a bunch of plausible-sounding crap about historical events. Then he turns over South Vietnam to the North on the brink of victory, when North Vietnam had run out of SAM's, and their military installations were naked to US airstrikes, and calls craven surrender a peace agreement. This is a guy who simply should not be trusted near anything important*. Unfortunately for the South Vietnamese and the GI's who were sacrificed to his inept machinations, he was entrusted with the fate of an entire nation.

* There's a reason Kissinger spent no time in anything resembling real private sector work. P&L statements don't lie.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2022-06-04 14:07  

#1  No different than at home. They've provided all sorts of military equipment to local police.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-06-04 12:24  

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