Well, I suppose that we should be thankful that there is a Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Otherwise, we would never have guessed that there may be some mismanagement of the reconstruction funds allocated to Afghanistan, just as there was with the reconstruction funds for Iraq.
Thus far, $18 billion has been allocated to the Afghanistan reconstruction fund. SIGAR investigated a relatively small portion of this. They looked at a $404,000,000 contract to provide training at 17 locations in Afghanistan. Mistake #1: responsibility for overseeing this contract resides in Maryland. Mistake #2: Only one representative of the contract overseer was based in Afghanistan. Mistake #3: The representative was ineffectual in that he never visited the sites. Result: There was no oversight. Has our money been wasted? You tell me.
Remember the name Arnold Fields; he is the IG for Afghanistan. If he does his job, he'll be as well known as Stuart Bowen.
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