: For 13 years, a US watchdog agency had been highlighting the failure to reconstruct Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS The chaotic collapse of the Afghan military in recent months made starkly clear that the

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For 13 years, a US watchdog agency had been highlighting the failure to reconstruct Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS
The chaotic collapse of the Afghan military in recent months made starkly clear that the billion United States taxpayers spent to create and fund those security forces achieved little. But a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction also reveals the depths of failure of the United States’ entire 20-year, 5 billion effort to reconstruct (or construct, in some cases) Afghanistan’s civil society.John Sopko, the special inspector general since 2012, has long chronicled the government’s miscalculations. In his latest lacerating assessment, he concluded that “the US government continuously struggled to develop and implement a coherent strategy for what it hoped to achieve�. The US effort was clumsy and ignorant, the report says, calling out the hubris of a superpower thinking it could reshape a country it did not understand by tossing gobs of money around.Flawed programmeThe new report is a sweeping look back over America’s two decades in Afghanistan, which left 2,443 US service members and more than 1,14,000 Afghans dead. The watchdog agency has, for 13 years, consistently and accurately pointed out consequential flaws of the many reconstruction programmes at play.ProPublica also examined some of the same issues along the way in a series called “GI Dough.� In 2015, we decided...Read more

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