[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The US has now spent $837 billion on warfighting and $145 billion in Afghanistan, and 2,443 American troops and 66,000 Afghan troops were killed
- One former senior Defense official told the watchdog: 'When you look at how much we spent and what we got for it, it's mind boggling'
- The analysis said that the reconstruction effort 'could be described as 20 one-year reconstruction efforts, rather than one 20-year effort'
- 'Billions of reconstruction dollars were wasted as projects went unused or fell into disrepair,' the report said, noting rampant corruption
- It found that US officials did not understand how their intervention was being accepted socially and culturally
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