Posted on 10/27/2016 4:20:54 AM PDT by rktman
America has spent $1.5 billion on women's rights in Afghanistan. Here are the results:
In rural areas, nothing has changed. Women are still imprisoned in their homes. Despite spending at least $1.5 billion on empowering Afghan women, the country is still viewed as one of the worst in the world for women.
The West has helped Afghanistan to expand and improve maternal health care, as well as open up schools that girls can attend in urban and rural areas. But as Nimmi Gowrinathan, a visiting professor at City College in New York, said of educating girls, "That's the reality until the sixth grade, when they get married."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Guaranteed the vast majority of that money went into the pockets of the well connected both from Afghanistan and the USA. All part of the government corruption racket.
Govt corruption? Where’s that? LOL! I know. Boaf places.
What did they expect? Where do you think the money wound up? Eh? To pay for lessons on goat humping? No more of our money needs to be sent to savages.
From crooked leadership here....to crooked leadership over there!
About half the $$$ was siphoned off before the check found the mailbox.
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