They have been given entitlements much like what we hand out here with no return investment expected.
They grow 50% of the world’s opium poppies.
There’s plenty of money there.
When we leave, the Taliban will be in control in less than 10 days.
“Winning their hearts and minds” with American tax dollars, much of which has to be repaid to the ChiComs.
Another brilliant American foreign policy success.
....When we build things the Afghans can't use, and when we don't take their resources into account, we're not just wasting money; we're jeopardizing our mission of creating a self-sustaining Afghanistan that can keep insurgents down and terrorists out," he said.
You have to be naive as hell to think that all this was not pre-planned. Instead of setting up capitalistic ventures which could be perpetuated and grown once the US and its money leaves,this regime went all out commie. They created an unsustainable welfare state.
Anyone surprised.
It was planned and the goal all along.
If you are a terrorist/terrorists sympathizer and willing to trade five Taliban leaders for one traitor plus 50 million bucks would you have any problem helping the Taliban takeover when we leave?
Pretty simple to figure out.
AFGHANISTAN
[American officials have spent billions of tax dollars “setting up projects or programs that the Afghans cannot or will not sustain once international forces” leave Afghanistan,]
IRAQ
[American officials have spent billions of tax dollars “setting up projects or programs that the IRAQIS cannot or will not sustain once international forces” leave IRAQ, ]
moslem nations don’t want our help - and do not care about establishing democratic freedoms for the people living within their borders...
Pick a moslem nation - look up the human rights reports and abuses...absolutely horrible...and then they bring that same mindset into other nations that have established rights and cry and yell saying everyone must respectful to theirs....backwards thinking - and very dangerous...
And CONgre$$ says? I$I$.
I predict within 2 years (at the outside) after we leave, you will be unable to tell we ever occupied Afghanistan.
Perhaps we can convert the Afghans from Islam to a form of the Cargo Cult religion.
Yet they have 1 Trillion worth of resources in the ground. All they have to do is extract it.