"Western countries have failed to deliver $10 billion of nonmilitary assistance pledged to Afghanistan over the last six years and the United States, by far the biggest donor, is responsible for half of the shortfall, a new report published here on Tuesday said....
And yet we are bitching to NATO about more troops!!
Does U.S. arrogance and hypocrisy have a limit, readers?
The World Bank has spent only a little more than half of its commitments to Afghanistan, and the European Commission and Germany have disbursed less than two-thirds of theirs, the Acbar report said. The Asia Development Bank and India have disbursed only a third of their commitments, while Japan and Canada were singled out for best meeting their pledges....
International development aid to Afghanistan remained “woefully inadequate,” the report’s author, Matt Waldman, wrote. At $7 million a day, it is far below the $100 million spent daily on military needs.
That's not a surprise to me anymore!!!
Those percentages sound about right!!
6% spent on PEACE and 94% spent on WAR!
It has also fallen far short of development assistance to other postconflict countries, like Bosnia and East Timor. In the two years after 2001 Afghanistan received only $57 per capita in aid, whereas Bosnia received $679 and East Timor $233....
We are short-changing the Afghanis just like we short-change everyone else!!!
I'm SORRY, Afghanis!!!
SORRY for my government destroying your country and killing your people -- all on the DAMNABLE LIE of 9/11!!!
The Afghan government says it has no knowledge of where $5 billion of the $15 billion spent since 2001 went....
Here in America, our Pentagon has LOST TRILLIONS!!!!
The report singled out A.I.D. for wasteful practices. A road from the Kabul airport to a major intersection near the United States Embassy cost more than $3 million a mile, “at least four times the average cost of building a road in Afghanistan,” Acbar said in a news release issued in Kabul alongside the report. A.I.D. does not finance development through the government but works through profit-making contractors who often subcontract the work to other companies. “Vast sums of aid are lost in the corporate profits of contractors and subcontractors, which can be as high as 50 percent on a single contract,” the report said.
The use of foreign consultants is also costly, at $250,000 to $500,000 a year for each, because of high salaries, generous living allowances and security expenses.
Translation: None of that $$$ went to the poor Afghani farmer and his family whose hearts and minds we allegedly are trying to win (too late)!!!
It went into WAR CONTRACTOR POCKETS!!!!!
NO WONDER the Taliban is gaining strength!!!
The report also criticized an imbalance in assistance. Too much of the aid goes to the capital, Kabul, and other urban centers, it said, when three-quarters of the population lives in rural areas. Agriculture, the main livelihood of the population, has not been a priority, it added.
Not the way to win hearts and minds, folks!
Add on top of it the aerial slaughter of livestock and families, and we've lost already!!
We should APOLOGIZE to those folks, pack up and GO HOME!!!!!
A disproportionate amount of the aid is also being spent in the southern part of the country, where the insurgency is strongest, which has created resentment in northern areas, the report said."
Yeah, created resentment in the north amongst our alleged Northern Alliance friends!
AmeriKa even screws its friends!
No wonder no one like us (although you wouldn't get that from reading the Zionist papers)!!!!
