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In the middle America-First revolution, surging homeslessness (25% of homeless reportedly are ex US military) and 'cancel rent' protests at home, taxpayers funded global spending continues on bottomless pits of corruption and incompetence that has been enabling child rape in many cases:
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Afghan security forces, despite years of training, were dogged by incompetence and corruption
How US-Funded Abuses Led to Failure in Afghanistan
hrw.org 2021/07/06
Jul 6, 2021 — postmortems on resurgence abetted by Afghan government abuses and corruption
Routine Child Rape by Afghan Police
The American Conservative
Don't look, don't tell, troops told
Toronto Star
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan military or police personnel
nytimes.com
Sep 20, 2015
Main story:
US will pay $4B a year to Afghan forces; Who is watching?
Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press
July 27, 2021
Masked Afghan Army Special Forces attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan’s military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. Already, the U.S. has spent nearly $89 billion over the past 20 years to build, equip and train Afghan forces.
Yet America’s own government watchdog says oversight of the money has been poor, hundreds of millions of dollars have been misspent and corruption is rife in the security apparatus.
Monitoring where the future funding goes will become virtually impossible after Aug. 31, when the last coalition troops leave. Here is a look at some of the issues:
U.S. spending since 2001
Nearly $83 billion has been spent to build, equip, train and sustain Afghanistan’s National Defense and Security Forces, which include the military, national police and the elite special forces.
That figure covers a wide range of items. For example, the U.S. spent nearly $10 billion for vehicles and aircraft. It spent $3.75 billion on fuel for the Afghan military between 2010-2020.
Separately, another $5.8 billion went into economic and government development and infrastructure since 2001, with the expressed goal of winning public support and blunting the Taliban insurgency. The figures are from reports by John Sopko, the Special Inspector General on Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, tasked with monitoring how U.S. taxpayer dollars are spent.
The U.S. allocation for 2022 is $3.3 billion. It will include $1 billion to support the Afghan Air Force and Special Mission Wing, $1 billion for fuel, ammunition and spare parts, and $700 million to pay salaries for Afghan soldiers.
militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/07/27/explainer-us-pays-4b-to-afghan-forces-who-is-watching/
Taxpayers funded training and freedom enduring academy produced local officers apparently still not trained enough to protect their own personnel let alone ensure public safety after over two decades of training:
First flight of Afghan military interpreters to arrive in US
Fri July 30, 2021
The Afghans on that flight are the lucky ones. They represent a sliver of the estimated 20,000 SIV applicants in line, some of whom told CNN they are deeply afraid as they watch the Taliban's bloody executions and reprisals against those who helped US troops.
U.S. to begin housing Afghan interpreters at Virginia military base
Interpreters and others who aided the U.S. fear for their lives as the Taliban make gains.
07/19/2021
Related
Afghan security forces, despite years of training, were dogged by incompetence and corruption
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-army-police/
How US-Funded Abuses Led to Failure in Afghanistan
hrw.org 2021/07/06
Jul 6, 2021 — postmortems on resurgence abetted by Afghan government abuses and corruption
Routine Child Rape by Afghan Police
The American Conservative
Don't look, don't tell, troops told
Toronto Star
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan military or police personnel
nytimes.com
Sep 20, 2015
Main story:
US will pay $4B a year to Afghan forces; Who is watching?
Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press
July 27, 2021
Masked Afghan Army Special Forces attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan’s military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. Already, the U.S. has spent nearly $89 billion over the past 20 years to build, equip and train Afghan forces.
Yet America’s own government watchdog says oversight of the money has been poor, hundreds of millions of dollars have been misspent and corruption is rife in the security apparatus.
Monitoring where the future funding goes will become virtually impossible after Aug. 31, when the last coalition troops leave. Here is a look at some of the issues:
U.S. spending since 2001
Nearly $83 billion has been spent to build, equip, train and sustain Afghanistan’s National Defense and Security Forces, which include the military, national police and the elite special forces.
That figure covers a wide range of items. For example, the U.S. spent nearly $10 billion for vehicles and aircraft. It spent $3.75 billion on fuel for the Afghan military between 2010-2020.
Separately, another $5.8 billion went into economic and government development and infrastructure since 2001, with the expressed goal of winning public support and blunting the Taliban insurgency. The figures are from reports by John Sopko, the Special Inspector General on Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, tasked with monitoring how U.S. taxpayer dollars are spent.
The U.S. allocation for 2022 is $3.3 billion. It will include $1 billion to support the Afghan Air Force and Special Mission Wing, $1 billion for fuel, ammunition and spare parts, and $700 million to pay salaries for Afghan soldiers.
militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/07/27/explainer-us-pays-4b-to-afghan-forces-who-is-watching/
Taxpayers funded training and freedom enduring academy produced local officers apparently still not trained enough to protect their own personnel let alone ensure public safety after over two decades of training:
First flight of Afghan military interpreters to arrive in US
Fri July 30, 2021
The Afghans on that flight are the lucky ones. They represent a sliver of the estimated 20,000 SIV applicants in line, some of whom told CNN they are deeply afraid as they watch the Taliban's bloody executions and reprisals against those who helped US troops.
U.S. to begin housing Afghan interpreters at Virginia military base
Interpreters and others who aided the U.S. fear for their lives as the Taliban make gains.
07/19/2021
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