“It is the duty of the world, especially the US…to come and rebuild the Afghan economy.”
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center specializing in investigative reporting on the Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Biden administration could pull the troops out of Afghanistan, but the actual withdrawal will never end. After bringing over some 50,000 Afghan evacuees, most of whom had no visas, there are another estimated 62,000 Afghans waiting on visas to come to America.
That’s over 110,000 Afghan immigrants coming to America and we’re just getting started.
In July, I wrote an article headlined, “‘Saving Afghan Interpreters’ is a Scam That Would Bring 100,000 Afghans to U.S.” We’re already on track to break the 100,000 barrier in 2022.
But even as Biden is rushing every Afghan he can find to America, taxpayers are sending $144 million in “humanitarian aid” to Afghanistan so the Taliban don’t have to divert any of the money they gain from the opium trade and taxing our “humanitarian aid” to caring for their own people.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai of the Taliban recently asserted that, “It is the duty of the world, especially the US… to come and rebuild the Afghan economy.”
The Taliban control the country, but they want us to still keep on pumping billions into it.
The Jihadists are cheerfully duplicating the same arrangement that Hamas has in Gaza or the Houthis have in Yemen in which they get to focus on fighting us while we take care of their people. The terrorists get the geopolitical and financial benefits of controlling a country while Americans get to do the hard work of providing basic services to the people trying to kill us.
But if the Democrats have their way, Afghanistan will indeed become America’s Palestine.
A recent congressional letter to the Biden administration signed by Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Karen Bass, Rep. Ted Lieu, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, among others, proposes using Afghan assets held by the U.S. to fund Afghan schools and “hold the Taliban-led government to their commitment to allow girls and young women to attend secondary school nationwide.”
Then the Biden administration “should assist multilateral organizations attempting to pay Afghan civil servants” which amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the bureaucracy of a terrorist state.
Finally, “the Biden administration should allow international financial institutions to inject the necessary economic capital into Afghanistan to stave off the worst of its economic meltdown” and “facilitate dollar auctions” through an Afghan bank.
If these measures were actually implemented, the United States would still be funding and running much of Afghanistan’s economic and public service infrastructure remotely even while the Taliban actually control the country. The best way to describe the insane proposition is to say that it would turn Afghanistan into America’s very own private little “Palestine”.
Like the PLO and Hamas, the Taliban would have their own territory and would focus on terrorism, while the international community, led by the United States would fund their schools, run their official economy, and provide most social services through the UN and various NGOs.
Afghanistan would literally become our very own Gaza. The Taliban would function as the Palestinian Authority, the “moderate” terrorists we deal with, while ISIS-K would play the role of Hamas, the “extremist” terrorists we want to stop by giving money to the “moderate” terrorists.
And we would be spending hundreds of millions on social welfare to stop “radicalization”.
That may be exactly what the Taliban want. The Jihadists would get the best of both worlds. There would be an “inclusive” front government” made up of the few factions tolerated by the Taliban, including even a few women in burkas, with experience in navigating NGO slang.
They would tell the State Department whatever it wants to hear about educating girls, religious tolerance, and democracy, as long as we keep sending them hundreds of millions of dollars.
Meanwhile a Taliban shadow government would actually run things to their own liking, taking credit for all the social services and humanitarian aid provided by the United States while finding new ways to profit from it the way that it did back when the Taliban were an insurgency.
The congressional proposal is full of promises that the money won’t fall into the hands of the Taliban. Insisting that you can pay Afghan civil servants, fund schools, and inject massive amounts of capital into the country without any of it falling into the hands of the government is a dumb lie. The Taliban had an extensive taxation infrastructure which extracted money from the UN even when it was a terrorist insurgency, the idea that it won’t see any money from aid, salaries, and economic development capital when it’s in charge is entirely impossible.
But, as with the PLO and Hamas, the game here is plausible deniability for funding terrorists.
Democrats (and some Republicans) want to turn Afghanistan into another Palestine, a broken society run by terrorists, in a permanent state of humanitarian crisis that we are personally responsible for. Withdrawing from Afghanistan was not about actually getting out of the country, but letting the Taliban take over so that America is on the hook financially, but with no control.
Every year, we’ll hear about the coming famine in Afghanistan and we’ll chip in another few hundred million to feed the people while the Taliban builds its war chest. Just as Biden is doing this year. Americans will still fund Afghanistan’s government, but it will answer to the Taliban. Americans will fund Afghanistan’s schools, but they’ll teach Jihad and hatred of America.
And every time there’s a problem in Afghanistan, it’ll be our fault for not giving them enough.
Meanwhile, Islamic terrorists will set up shop in Afghanistan and stage attacks against America. The Taliban will, as they did with the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 of our service members, disavow responsibility and then claim that people are joining ISIS-K because we haven’t sent them enough “humanitarian aid” to spend on social services for the terrorists.
And then Afghanistan really will be our own Palestine.
Withdrawing from Afghanistan was supposed to recalculate our national interests, instead it’s sucking us deeper into the Afghan swamp. It’s time to step back and think about what we want, not for Afghanistan, but for ourselves.
“No one benefits from a failed state in Afghanistan,” the congressional letter falsely claims.
That’s not true.
The Taliban’s failure is good for America. Afghanistan will always be a hellhole beloved by Islamic terrorists, and its people will always want to come to America and Europe. No amount of money we spend on aid will change that. If two decades and trillions spent on Afghanistan have taught us nothing else, they should have taught us the folly of trying to change this basic reality.
It’s in America’s national interest for the Taliban, who aside from being our enemies, are also the catspaws of Pakistan and Communist China, to fail as much as possible and to be diverted from anything other than trying to maintain their grip on Afghanistan. The worse things get in Afghanistan, the more Afghans will do what they should have done all along and oppose them.
American aid helps the Taliban even if it does nothing more than relieve the inevitable misery.
The last thing we should be doing is helping the Taliban hold on to power and discouraging opposition to their regime by making life comfortable for the Afghans who welcomed their rule. What we should do to the Taliban is exactly what we did to Soviet allies during the Cold War by undermining them at every turn. Instead we’re subsidizing Al Qaeda and China’s allies.
And if the Democrats have their way, America will be permanently tethered to Afghanistan. The forever war will become a forever administration in which we will fund the Taliban’s schools, pay their bureaucrats, and feed and care for their people for generations with no end in sight.
If not forever.
Biden sacrificed 13 American lives, abandoned Americans behind enemy lines, and allowed the Taliban to humiliate us in front of the world in order to withdraw from Afghanistan. Let’s make that botched withdrawal count and actually withdraw financially and politically from Afghanistan.
Infidel says
The last 20 years should have taught us that there is nothing we can do to rebuild the Afghan economy
noel eliscu says
make the people do it.Turn arms into building materials.
Marilyn Griffin says
Rebuilding their country is not our responsibility. While that nation was under control of the US and other nations’ militaries, the Afghans were given tremendous assistance, but obviously no amount of assistance is ever enough for such people as was demonstrated by their immediate reversal when the other nations left. Those citizens had plenty of years under foreign protection to prepare themselves and their nation to be self-sufficient, yet they did not do this, promptly caving to the bad guys the moment the protectors left. Dud these people actually think other nations were going to be there forever spending many millions of dollars annually just to help them? Sorry, but I am through with these foreigners who are unwilling to do the hard things to help themselves and their nations but are always willing to take from other po peoples and nations. Enough! Let them continue with their Islam and constant warring and backward lives or else fight for better futures for their children. But, please stop whining and expecting the rest of the world to constantly and very expensively subsidizing them or even worse, expecting successful western nations to allow them to just move in and bd supported firever by welfare while they refuse to integrate in that new country in any way.
Infidel says
That was the point of my statement: sorry if it was unclear
gravenimage says
I knew what you meant, Infidel.
Fitna says
We gave them democracy on a silver platter. They didn’t want it. Some people love their own misery and chains. This was the golden opportunity for Afg. to free themselves from the shackles of Islam.
They laughed at us, took our aid money and refused to help us fight the Taliban when we needed them the most. Let Afg burn, along with other Islamic hellhole states. I feel sorry for the innocent victims but they should’ve been in the history books already.
The only other option is for western nations to go back and impose Democracy, while banning Islam at the same time. But the West lacked the stones to do it after 9/11, they’re even more corrupt and cowardly today, esp. under Biden.
Ofc Daniel’s article is too logical and intelligent for the elites, so they’re just going to do the opposite, which is to continue to import countless numbers of unvetted Muslims while funding the Taliban and other terrorist groups around the world.
I really can’t understand how a Left/Dem’s brain works. Do they think they’re making the world a better place by helping the Taliban? Or are they really efn clueless while they pretend to know what they’re doing?
Either ways, they’re a group of very stupid, very dangerous people and we can’t get a Republican gov’t in power soon enough. Though I suspect the Dems will try to steal the next election also.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Fitna.
gravenimage says
True–if the billions of dollars shoveled at Afghanistan for twenty years couldn’t lead them to build anything resembling even a nascent modern economy, then nothing will. More money will just wind up funding the Taliban’s Jihad terror plans.
mortimer says
Wrong, Infidel, because they did repeatedly rebuild the Afghan economy and they created roads and infrastructure and institutions that never existed before, but which the Taliban did their utmost to destroy.
The way to rebuild Afghanistan is for NATO to go back, exterminate ALL the Taliban and continue to build it AT THE EXPENSE OF PAKISTAN which could have stopped the Taliban, but instead helped them.
Pakistan should be rebuilding Afghanistan because Pakistan WRECKED it.
Infidel says
Regardless of who pays for it, I don’t wanna see any non-muslim contractors or workers from anywhere putting their lives at risk in that ?hole. Or let it become one more of China’s belt/road scams: it will be hilarious to see PLA workers pitted against IS-K or other jihadists in Afghanistan
gravenimage says
Mortimer, we didn’t “rebuild” the Afghan economy, because they didn’t have roads, and other infrastructure like this before-hand, and pretending that they did is odd.
And with all our efforts, Afghans have barely been able to feed themselves when we left–they were mostly living off our foreign aid (that is, charity). They could have built a proper economy, but this is never a priority in a Muslim land.
And I know of your constant demands that more Infidels pour out their blood and treasure for Muslims–which the majority has said they *don’t want*. Remember that Afghanistan is virtually 100% Muslim and that 99% of the population wants to see the impositon of Shari’ah law, *not* democracy.
The only Afghans who oppose the Taliban are a handful of those who genuinely want an (at least somewhat) more civilized society. Most of them actually would just prefer their own sect or tribe in power.
I don’t want to see any more civilized Infidels die to protect a society that put stoning back on the books.
Fitna says
Unfortunately Mortimer that’s a pipe-dream. NATO was created to protect western member nations from the Germany and the Soviet Union. It wasn’t created to nation-build, though they tried anyways and failed in Afghanistan.
While I wouldn’t care if all Islamic states self-destructed, I truly feel sorry for Muslim girls/women, who through bad luck, happened to be born into a society that hates women, because of Islam.
They’re beaten, abused sexually and physically by family members, spouses, and even strangers. What’s worse is they’re subjected to Sharia law, with stoning and other punishments.
For that reason alone I’d like to see the West invade and abolish Islam and bring them freedom/equality and eliminate the Sharia adherents like the Taliban. But that’s just not going to happen, because the elites in the West don’t understand Islam nor do they care.
Maybe in 20-40 years (if ever), western nations will have a better understanding and then work to remove Islam from this planet, but until then, I wouldn’t count on anyone “saving” Muslim nations from themselves.
I also fully agree with GravenImage’s point about not risking any Infidel lives to save Muslims. I believe we should cut off all aid to Islamic states and let them rely on themselves, we owe them nothing. Lastly I think all Muslims need to be sent back, except those trying to escape Islam.
Infidel says
Afghanistan is and was nowhere near the NATO zone of influence. Even during the 80s, NATO had nothing to do w/ arming Pakistan against a potential Soviet threat: that was purely a US project. It’s bizarre to hear NATO defenders invoke their use of Article 5 after 9/11, when their subsequent role was minimal at best
Truth be told, as Tucker Carlson put it, NATO is an army looking for a cause, and the most recent one, before their inane attempts to include Ukraine in the alliance, was climate change. It’s high time that it disbanded, and let the EU create its own international army, like they want. US troops are gonna be more needed against China, which is powerful enough to threaten Taiwan, Japan, India and Vietnam
gravenimage says
Fitna, I wouldn’t mind the risk so much if I thought that many Muslims actually *want* to be saved from Islam, but they don’t.
jule says
Nothing should be rebuilt under Sharia or even Islam
Bob C says
Screw you. forget about it. you’ve raped us for 20 years. no more handouts
somehistory says
WE don’t owe them beans, much less, the meat and potatoes they have been getting.
This afghanistan story is really getting old, like the entire islam, mozlum thing. So tiring, so irritating, so disgusting.
They wanted Americans out, and they ended up with a boatload of cash and billions in equipment…but it’s never enough. They are a lazy bunch of terrorists, rapers of children and thieves, and they insist that everyone, esp Americans, owe them more.
If I spoke to them *officially,* I would say, “Don’t call us. When we are ready to give you a handout, we’ll call you. In the meantime, get to work and take care of the people’s needs Give up your terrorism, your raping habits and denounce islam. then, we might think about calling with assistance.”
And I would change all addresses and phone numbers and leave for some other location.
Never make deals with the devil. Or mozlums who serve that demon.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Somehistory.
raja says
Never makes deals with any narcissist, including the devil’s own Left and islam. Never.
Pity Putin’s learning curve is yet to take off. Well, as far as Biden is concerned he can be “excused” because he is not his own man anyway !
Thanks for the reminder.
somehistory says
Correct. There are more worshippers of the devil than just those in islam. And we who love what is *right* and True, need to able to recognize each one by the fruits. each produces
CogitoErgoSum says
These are a people who bite the hand that feeds them and lick the boots of men who keep them in ignorance.
raja says
CognitoErgosum,
In India henpecked husbands are called dummy piece, generally. Here, their behavior is similar albeit with arrogance laced with brutality. No surprises to your comment.
Clifford Fodor says
There’s no limit to their unmitigated gall.
Violet C says
We owe NOTHING. They owe us.
Infidel says
Everything we paid to build them over the last 20 years should be summed up in a bill that Afghanistan – no matter who its government – owes us! And no, they don’t get the option of defaulting
Metsakulman Murre says
Right. They should pay back all the aid the U.S. had given to them in the last twenty years.
Ugly Sid says
Systematic, serial and absolutely intentional violation of immigration statutes warrants DOJ intervention. Current staffing may discourage such activity, but enforcing federal laws is their job.
Or it used to be.
gary fouse says
We should build a wall around Afghanistan and leave them to stew in their own misery. Nobody gets in and nobody gets out. We cannot make Afghanistan into Switzerland. Not one more US soldier should die so that Aghan girls can go to school.
gary fouse says
Here is an example of what the Afghans are doing in Europe. This just in from Germany.
https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2021/12/germany-two-afghan-brothers-charged.html
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Gary–*horrifying*.
And I didn’t know you had a blog–I’ll check it out from now on. I’ve been reading your posts here fror years, of course, but I didn’t know yoy had such an interesting bio!
Hoffen sie hattest ein wunderschönes Weihnachtsfest!
gary fouse says
Es war sehr schoen, danke. Ich wuensche Ihnen ein frohliche Neues Jahr.
gravenimage says
Ich wuensche Ihnen ein frohliche Neues Jahr auch!
Yogi says
It’s absolutely horrific, they was carrying this dead body around the people I. The train!!, this disgusting German government ( new) it’s even worse the before one and they want importing more this beasts from Afghanistan, around 40 thousand, it’s absolutely outrageous!!, more rapes , more murders to come
gravenimage says
That’s this horrifying story:
“Germany: Two Afghan Muslim migrants charged in gruesome murder of their sister for her ‘Western way of life’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/12/germany-two-afghan-muslim-migrants-charged-in-gruesome-murder-of-their-sister-for-her-western-way-of-life
They are Afghan Muslims. After murdering their sister, they cooly stuffed her body into a suitcase and carried it onto a passenger train.
Frank Anderson says
GI, instead of growing food for themselves Afghan farmers have been growing opium for “us”, killing hundreds of thousands and ruining the lives of millions. And the US did nothing meaningful to stop it. Consider the lessons learned in Vietnam by Operation Ranch Hand. I am pretty sure my rotten step faither flew as a flight engineer in C-123’s in that mission, 473 combat flights in 10 months. There was a reason for his treatment of my official adopted mother after he returned. But since then, better chemicals have been found that do not have the problems of Agent Orange. Can you imagine the TAH LEEE BAHNNN dismissing such a useful and profitable global weapon as opium? (I get irritated when I hear certain politicians strain to pronounce taliban).
somehistory says
The terrorists called the taliban…”students”…have had a large laugh at the fact that the poppies they grow are used by Americans to satisfy their illegal…and damaging…drug habits. It costs billions and millions of lives are ruined by the opium produced by the terrorists.
They smuggle drugs and other terrorists smuggle weapons and people, and now the taliban terrorists have openly smuggled other terrorists and the victims…children raped by the male slime….right into the country and on the backs of the American taxpayers.
One of my brothers died as a direct result of Agent Orange. He ran a supply boat that went up and down the Han River in Danang and was sprayed multiple times. He had three different tours there while in the Navy. and the cancers made his last years miserable.
Governments, past and present, have made huge and terrible decisions.
gravenimage says
Yes, Somehistory–another reason to “just say no” to drugs.
And I’m so sorry to hear about your brother.
somehistory says
Thank you, g. He was a sweet, sweet man. He took care of me when I was newly born and he was only six. and he is someone I’ll never forget.
gravenimage says
True, Frank.
Martyn Jones says
If the US, foolishly, wants to give money to these animals then, they should “buy” back the military hardware from.the taliban, that they left behind when they evacuated!
Doomer says
More evidence of the Leftist-Muslim alliance. The Muslims are Far More Intelligent than the Leftists is one way:
1. They have secretly promised Leftists they will help them get to POWER . How? Leftists candidates will get the Muslim VOTE.
2. Why? Muslim leaders know for a Fact, that Leftist’s ECONOMIC policy will Destroy the West. That makes it easier for the 57 nations ( 33% of countries) of the OIC ( Organization of Islamic Cooperation )
to subdue the West. Remember that in 1990 there was the “Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam”, which made the 30 Human Rights of the 1948 UN Human Rights Declaration
subject to Islamic Law-Sharia.
I decided to investigate a bit more about what JAVED HASHMI-DANIOS had said in his debate with Robert Spencer on “Violence in Islam and Christianity”. I came across MORE deception.
a) Danios had said AUGUSTINE was for making the Jews SLAVES, due to using the word “servitude”.
b) It can be used to mean Discrimination,but I can’t believe Danios is NOT aware of the study by PAULA FREDRIKSEN’s ( convert to Judaism, and NT scholar) book “Augustine and the Jews”(2008). She is famous in NT studies.
In this article she says:
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1864878,00.html
1. “Not only could I establish that he had CHANGED his position,
but I could LOCATE this SHIFT in his thinking VERY PRECISELY, to the FOUY-YEAR period when he also wrote his monumental CONFESSIONS.”
She continues with:
2. ” But more important is the theological 180-DEGREE TURN Augustine does between 395 and 398.
He has moved from demeaning Jews and disparaging Judaism to becoming the ONLY THEOLOGIAN of his ERA to make them an important and positive part of his view of God and humanity.”
How So?
3. ” He writes that Catholics and Jews stand as one community over against pagans and heretics, that Jesus and his apostles, including Paul, lived as Torah-observant Jews for the whole of their lives.
And he urges that GOD HIMSELF would
PUNISH ANY KING
who tried to INTERFERE with the Jews’ PRACTICE of JUDAISM.
These ideas preserved SPACE for Jewishness in Christian culture,
space that in the much more toxic culture of the Christian Middle Ages, helped save Jewish lives. Although that, too, was an unintended consequence. He could not possibly have imagined their being in that kind of danger.”
4. I can’t believe Danios had NOT read Frediksen, any way Danios had quoted a line that he said was written by Augustine,that the Jews are “Not to be Killed, but to survive and NOT THRIVE”( be persecuted,be discriminated).
Ok,here is what the article,an interview of Fredriksen,says:
“INTERVIEWER: What about the impression that although Augustine said that Christians “should not kill” Jews he still wanted them to be miserable
— to “survive but NOT THRIVE” — as an example of what happens to people who do not accept Christ?
FREDRIKSEN: “Do not kill them” is from Psalm 59, which Augustine uses to argue that Christians should
1. NOT “kill” the Jews’ Jewish TRADITIONS because they come from God.
2. He believes that God himself maintained the Jews’ existence as a people because their devotion to the Torah broadcast the antiquity and authenticity of the Jewish Bible, which Augustine held contained prophecies of Christ.
3. So yes, he thought the Jews should survive.
The “But not thrive” line is a non-Augustinian ADDITION of a LATER PERIOD.”
Fredriksen unfortuantely does NOT say Where Augustine would have got the idea “He believes that God himself maintained the Jews’ existence as a people ”
It comes from ROMANS ( by Paul ):
a) Romans 11:1-2
” I ask, then, has God REJECTED his people?
By NO MEANS!
For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
God has NOT REJECTED his people who he foreknew.”
b) And later in Romans 11:28-29
“As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards ELECTION ( My note: the Jews status as the CHOSEN PEOPLE),
they are BELOVED for the sake of their forefathers.
For the GIFTS (My note: the status of the Jews as the Chosen People) and the calling of GOD are IRREVOCABLE.”
MORE proof Hashmi-Danios is not a real scholar,he lies.
David Foot says
We need to restore the Empires NOT decolonization nor nation building.
In places like Afghanistan we need to have three or four bases fed/ linked by air and to control the territory from there and what goes on.
To abandon bases and arms to terrorists and to China is unforgivable Marxism of the Democrats.
Truman and his 300 Marxists did to China what Biden did to Afghanistan, the Marxist Democrats destroy any advantage or power of the Anglosphere.
Today we have allowed all the Anglosphere to be invaded and under attack, we have passed on our education to the Marxists so they can brainwash the kids while the TWO remaining massive Marxist Empires with their Leninist dictatorships only want to expand.
China thinks that it is entitled to the Pacific and to Taiwan and Tibet and Hong Kong
Russia thinks it has a right to the Japanese Islands and all of Ukraine which it is taking over bit by bit.
What do we do in USA and UK and everywhere else we split up! The Marxist Empires don’t fire a shot we destroy ourselves. The Marxists and the Moslems use OUR democracy and freedom to invade and destroy us.
somehistory says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hundreds-of-afghans-denied-humanitarian-entry-into-us/ar-
They don’t want people here who will work and add to the betterment; they brought in the terrorists, wife-beaters and rapers of little kids. It’s all an evil plan.
Kepha says
The USA owes Taleb-controlled Afghanistan nothing, not even the proverbial wooden nickel. Rather, they should turn over any profits they make from rare metals, or even opium, to the USA for having hosted the goons who gave us 9/11 and for any of our people killed in our nation-building misadventure over the last 20 years. They won’t lack for money, since they’ll start getting lots of remittances from their exiles abroad before too long. And maybe we should also make it clear that if they try such a thing again, we’ll come back and break things even worse. Iran, are you listening?
libertyORdeath says
What a bunch of rubes. Afghanistan had already been destroyed long before we got there.
Nobody wants America to be the “world police” but they sure do expect us to use our prosperity to fund every backwards country out there.
Kepha says
Well said! it seems that except for rebuilding Japan after WWII, and aiding Taiwan and South Korea, US aid has gone towards making either rivals, kleptocracies, or, in the case of Western Europe, intelligentsia that will never forgive us for having made it impossible to live under their Marxist idol.
US foreign policy should start focusing like a laser only on issues that are of clear importance to US interests. We should’ve learned a lesson about our own limits in the disastrous brushfires of the 1960’s and 1970’s; and , certainly, any idea of “reforming” Islam by showing what wonderful, well-intentioned people our liberal academics and half-educated bureaucrats are is a losing proposition from the get-go.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kepha.
OLD GUY says
Basically any money sent to rebuild Afghanistan will be a theft of American Tax Dollars by the Taliban and its criminal leaders. If a house bill is passed to fund rebuilding of Afghanistan we need to investigate our Government officials who support such spending. No one in their right mind should support that waste of money and resources unless they are PROFITING from the deal.
Kepha says
It’ll be pouring still useful money down a rathole.
gravenimage says
It’s worse than that–money down a rat hole would be useless but not otherwise harmful. Giving terrorists money actively harms us.