While Donald Trump took a lot of heat for his recent “America First” speech, which foreign-policy experts rejected as “isolationist,” a scathing new Pentagon report on Afghan reconstruction backs his stance against nation-building. In a report to Congress, the Defense Department reveals that Washington so far has spent
an eye-popping $113.2 billion to rebuild Afghanistan - an amount that, adjusted for inflation, tops by $10 billion the total we committed to rebuilding post-WWII Europe under the Marshall Plan. Much of the Afghan reconstruction funds have been lost to waste, fraud, abuse and rampant corruption. After 15 years, “The reconstruction effort in Afghanistan is in a perilous state,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko concludes in his 236-page report.
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