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US has spent more rebuilding Afghanistan than post-WWII Europe

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The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a statement to Congress last week that when adjusted for inflation the $113.1 billion plowed into the chaos-riven country outstripped the post-WWII spend by at least $10 billion.

Billions have been squandered on projects that were either useless or sub-standard, or lost to waste, corruption, and systemic abuse, according to SIGAR's reports.

NBC News spoke to SIGAR's Special Inspector General John F. Sopko about 12 of the most bizarre and baffling cases highlighted by his team's investigations.

Paraphrasing Albert Einstein, Sopko said the U.S.'s profligate spending in Afghanistan is "the definition of insanity — doing the same things over and over again, expecting a different result."
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They list 12 of the more wasteful projects and provide details in the article.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/12-ways-your-tax-dollars-were-squandered-afghanistan-n528771
1. $486 million for 'deathtrap' aircraft that were later sold for $32,000
2. $335 million on a power plant that used just 1 percent of its capacity
4. $34.4 million on a soybean program for a country that doesn't eat soybeans
10. $7.8 billion fighting drugs — while Afghans grow more opium than ever
11. $7.8 million on a nearly-empty business park
12. $81.9 million on incinerators that either weren't used or harmed troops
 
and the marshall plan got some good results. there is nothing to show for this money.
 
#smallgovernment
#governmentGetOffMyBack
#balancedBudget
#killBabiesInAndOutOfTheWombInAfghanistan
#EvilDoers
 
9. $3 million for the purchase — and then mystery cancellation — of eight boats

SIGAR said the U.S. military has been unable to provide records answering "the most basic questions" surrounding the mystery purchase and cancellation of eight patrol boats for landlocked Afghanistan.

The scant facts SIGAR were able to find indicated the boats were bought in 2010 to be used by the Afghan National Police, and that they were intended to be deployed along the country's northern river border with Uzbekistan.

"The order was cancelled — without explanation — nine months later," SIGAR said. The boats were still sitting unused at a Navy warehouse in Yorktown, Virginia, as of 2014.

"We bought in a navy for a landlocked country," Sopko said.
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Awesome.
 
Let me try since mine has been faltering:

Its a good thing that when our tax dollars were wasted on all those missiles and drone strikes of weddings they killed children after they were out of the womb. Its very important to Jesus that we only kill and traumatize children after they have been born.
 
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BobStackFan4Life said:
They list 12 of the more wasteful projects and provide details in the article.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/12-ways-your-tax-dollars-were-squandered-afghanistan-n528771
1. $486 million for 'deathtrap' aircraft that were later sold for $32,000
2. $335 million on a power plant that used just 1 percent of its capacity
4. $34.4 million on a soybean program for a country that doesn't eat soybeans
10. $7.8 billion fighting drugs — while Afghans grow more opium than ever
11. $7.8 million on a nearly-empty business park
12. $81.9 million on incinerators that either weren't used or harmed troops
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These are the same competent folks this board wants to put in charge of our healthcare system.
 
lulzzz obama right again


Putin says "Mission Accomplished"

(CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces to begin withdrawing from Syria, saying they have achieved their goals in the country, state-run media reported Monday.

The pullback will begin Tuesday, the state-run Sputnik news agency reported.

"I think that the task that was assigned to the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces as a whole has achieved its goal, and so I order the defense minister to start tomorrow withdrawing the main part of our military factions from the Syrian Arab Republic," Sputnik quoted Putin as saying.

Russia began air strikes in September in support of the Syrian government, which has been fighting Syrian rebels and ISIS in a war that is now nearly 5 years old.


...oh, and Russia started pumping oil again despite the OPEC "freeze"
 
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