And the MSM cannot figure out why Trump is popular, it is because he says the things that are uncomfortably TRUE!
Posted on 10/31/2016 8:13:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
KABUL, Afghanistan — Thirteen years ago the United States called the reconstruction of the Kabul-Kandahar highway "the most visible sign" of efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. But today, that stretch of road is no longer a sign of progress.
Instead, littered with bomb craters and insurgent checkpoints, it's now "beyond repair," according to an Afghan official, and a symbol of the failed U.S. intervention here.
A report released Saturday by a U.S. government oversight body paints a grim picture of the state of Afghanistan's roads, including the roughly 10,000 miles that were constructed, paved, repaired or funded by the United States. The new roads were hailed as key to bringing economic growth and security, even when they eventually became too dangerous for travel.
Now, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says 95 percent of the sections of road they inspected were either damaged or destroyed. And 85 percent were either poorly maintained or not at all.
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They spend so much time trying not to offend Islam that everything around them falls apart
This happened for the same reason that, when you repair ghetto housing, it ends up looking like crap 5 or 10 years later. Both are being built in an area where the people don’t care about maintaining and preserving property. The people who live in these areas don’t have the motivation to keep infrastructure in good repair and looking nice. In fact, they are more likely to be at war with each other and deliberately trying to destroy the infrastructure and other property. Its why throwing money at any Third World Hellhole — whether its foreign or domestic — never works.
You know it.
Which was the whole purpose of our being in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Casting pearls before swine.
It's not the fault of those who built the roads and got paid for it, but it is somebody's fault that they were built in arguably the most backward country in the world where there was no chance for them to endure.
How predictable this whole thing was. The West has an unbroken multi-hundred year history of utterly failing in Afghanistan. If the original 2001 intent was to take out Bin Laden, I could have seen and supported sending in some hunter-killer teams willing to employ unbridled brutality to splatter his guts against some cave wall and getting out. And not telling anyone. Anything past that was some form of overambitious folly.
Dick Cheney got paid.
That’s all that ultimately matters, isn’t it?
Just like in the US...this is how DOT unions are formed. Make roads with built-in obsolescence!
And the MSM cannot figure out why Trump is popular, it is because he says the things that are uncomfortably TRUE!
We should never have tried to rebuild Afghanistan. In fact we should never have tried to do anything except to bounce the rubble until there was nothing moving.
We’re there to protect the poppy trade.
Any worse than The Trans-Amazonian Highway? Oh yes, No IEDs, Taliban checkpoints. Otherwise it looks to be the same.
Kickbacks as far as the eye can see?
Yep, U.S. contractors get rich, then buy more politicians to make sure our foreign adventures continue and they get even richer. It’s a tidy system.
The 3rd World in general and Afghanistan specifically is and will remain a “hell hole” because of the political, religious and social customs/belief systems the people adhere to...
No amount of money, sweat and blood from the well-intended West will ever change that...Islam (their adopted religious, social and political system) is the root cause and chief impediment to improving conditions...
The people of Afghanistan must decide they want better for themselves and their children, and change internally...Until that happens, it will forever remain a 3rd World hell hole...
Pouring resources into a bottomless pit of backwardness expecting improvement of conditions is an endless and futile endeavor...The best approach is to leave them alone in their squalor until they decide they’ve had enough, begin to help themselves, and join the community of civilized nations...
It does seem, starting with Vietnam, up through Central America, and now the Middle East, that an explosion in the drug trade of any of those regions exploded with U.S. military intervention.
We needed those roads to transport all the Opium produced. Don’t worry the US gets their cut, all the proceeds are laundered through HSBC with James COmey overseeing it.
All our adventures in the ME - A criminal waste of blood and treasure.
I used to think that GWB was well meaning but naïve and ignorant. Now - I’m not so sure.
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