I just read an article on the The Center for Strategic and
International Studies website entitled
The US Cost of the Afghan War: FY2002-FY2013. The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a
bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center conducts
policy studies and strategic analyses on political, economic and security
issues, focusing on technology, public policy, international trade and finance,
and energy. According to its mission statement, "CSIS provides
strategic insights and policy solutions to decision makers in government,
international institutions, the private sector, and civil society”.
I found the following paragraphs from the article interesting:
This is an incredible amount of money to have spent with so
few controls, so few plans, so little auditing, and almost no credible measures
of effectiveness.
It is also clear that the end effect has been to sharply
raise the threshold of corruption in Afghanistan, to make transition planning
far more difficult, and raise the risk that sudden funding cuts will undermine
the Afghan government’s ability to maintain a viable economy and effective
security forces.
During the last month we have heard all of this disaster talk about the "Sequester". The Sequester deals with $85 billion in cuts to government spending. This year alone we will spend more than $90 billion in Afghanistan.
Seems absolutely crazy to me.
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