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Join contestHow many years did you have in country, and what years were they?US investment pretty much ended up in Dubai and similar of shore havens if it was not directly stolen by contractors . Mismanagment of resources Afghan and Iraq wars is one for the recordbooks epic.
How many years did you have in country, and what years were they?
How many years did you have in country, and what years were they?
How many years did you have in country, and what years were they?
And the Afghanistan I saw when I left in 2015 was in stark contrast to the one I saw when I first set foot there in 2001. It costs a lot of money to build and train in a war zone, but there was a massive amount of construction done with the US funding (Ring Road and others, schools, training centers, bases, outposts, checkpoints, etc), as well as the hundreds of thousands (to millions) of Afghan security personnel who were trained, equipped and paid with those funds.I was there as finance/contracting (as in contracts), he's 100% right. The waste I saw made me furious.
Soviets said the same in 1989And the Afghanistan I saw when I left in 2015 was in stark contrast to the one I saw when I first set foot there in 2001. It costs a lot of money to build and train in a war zone, but there was a massive amount of construction done
One could say a cultural difference...Afghanistan is not Japan, Germany or any Eastern Europe country. All places that were conquered in WW II that we still have bases in or the Soviets would had they not imploded.
Afghanistan is not the falkland islands (still held by British). It is not Guam, or other USA territory.
Afghanistan is a shit hole. It is not worth conquering and occupying. Humans probably shouldn't even live there.
To set up a government you have to stick around for 70+ years (2 generations, with original generation dieing off). Afghanistan just isnt worth staying for.