These are serious grounds for impeachment. Nearly a year after I wrote this, House hearings made it clear that the Biden administration is still illegally obstructing the Afghanistan watchdog. In June, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s office (SIGAR), dispatched letters to Secretary of State Blinken and Samantha Power complaining that the State Department and […]
Billions in US aid wasted in Afghanistan: $5,400,000 on Tuscan goats, $164,000,000 on Dubai villas for corrupt pols
Nothing was too good for our Afghan allies, who lived lives of unbelievable opulence on our dime. Meanwhile, Americans struggled and the American infrastructure crumbled. But the “America-First” president was an egregious upstart who had to be removed at all costs. Meanwhile, the Afghan recipients of our largesse likely took it as their due. Non-Muslims […]
U.S. paying salaries of tens of thousands of non-existent Afghan soldiers, police, teachers and civil servants
“John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), said the salaries of ‘ghost soldiers’ is just one of many ways Americans’ money is wasted in Afghanistan – all for rather modest gains.” What gains? As soon as the U.S. troops are finally gone from Afghanistan, the Taliban will take over again. The whole Afghan […]
US military wasted $43 million of taxpayer money on useless Afghanistan gas station
The gas station should have cost no more than $500,000. And that’s not even the worst of it: the entire Afghan enterprise, all the lives and all the billions, have been entirely wasted. Afghanistan is not a reliable ally now and will not be in the future. Nor is it a secular republic that respects […]