In some ways, the US Government did succeed in creating a government in Afghanistan that looks just like Fed.gov
And that is why I don’t care about Afghanistan and the Afghanis.
If they wanted something better that what they have, they should have fought harder.
I wonder where the Afghani government got the money to pay those ghost soldiers?
Just kidding. The money came from the bank accounts of hard-working Americans. (The U.S. sent $4.9 billion in “aid” to Afghanistan in 2019 alone.)
Afghanistan was a lost cause from the start. Only idiots thought it might turn out differently.
Should have called them the Bernie Madoff Brigades.
-—well—that’s part of what happened to George Custer. too—the Indian Agents were getting money for food for people supposedly on the reservations, pocketing it while the Indians were really out and about—
—times never change for dishonest government agencies—