You'll feel very sad when you read the McClatchy article on construction projects in Afghanistan. In the U.S.A. the economy sucks and the infrastructure sucks, yet we are afraid to spend money on bringing our infrastructure into the 21st century. However, we are quite willing to piss money away in Afghanistan.
And we are wasting lots of cash trying to bring Afghanistan into the 19th century. Today in Afghanistan, we are sponsoring the kind of investment we should be making in this country. The problem is that the Afghanis do not have the expertise to complete many of these projects. We are willing to accept bids that are clearly too low. We are willing to accept sub-standard work. We are willing to re-hire companies that have proven, time and time again, they are incapable of getting the job done.
This is no way to help Afghanistan or ourselves. When will we smarten up?
And we are wasting lots of cash trying to bring Afghanistan into the 19th century. Today in Afghanistan, we are sponsoring the kind of investment we should be making in this country. The problem is that the Afghanis do not have the expertise to complete many of these projects. We are willing to accept bids that are clearly too low. We are willing to accept sub-standard work. We are willing to re-hire companies that have proven, time and time again, they are incapable of getting the job done.
This is no way to help Afghanistan or ourselves. When will we smarten up?
1 comment:
Iraq, all over again. America won't smarten up while big companies are cleaning up.
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