Even before we passed the stimulus bill here we were providing economic stimuli to Afghanistan. In FY2009 the U.S. Army alone awarded $2.2 billion in contracts, $834,000,000 of which went for construction projects. It's amazing the amount of construction going on there.
Bagram Air Base is one of the more popular places to expand. The four concrete plants on the base have been working 24 hours a day for 18 months. The Air Force section of the base is building $200,000,000 worth of projects.We're building a prison that can hold more than 1,000 detainees. There will be a $30,000,000 passenger terminal opened in 2011.
Would fixing the infrastructure here have been a better use of the money? Does all this investment indicate our children's children will be serving in Afghanistan, as has happened with the overseas bases we established after WWII?
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Smacks of Iraq all over again, doesn't it?
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