Monday, December 09, 2019

Talk about a bad investment

Our investment in Afghanistan has cost us more than $2 trillion. Here's a breakdown:

$1.5 trillion waging war yet the Taliban control or contest much of the country.

$10 billion on counternarcotics but Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of the world’s heroin.

$87 billion to train Afghan military and police forces but Afghan forces still can’t support themselves.

$24 billion on economic development and still most Afghans live in poverty.

$30 billion on other reconstruction programs but much of that money was lost to corruption and failed projects.

$500 billion on interest on borrowed money to fund the war.

Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest sources of refugees and migrants. More than 2,400 American soldiers and more than 38,000 Afghan civilians have died.

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