American taxpayers are encountering a drumbeat of bad news from Afghanistan: Insurgents are launching coordinated complex attacks and implanting record numbers of IEDs. Strained by more than a decade of war, US troops, are implicated in Koran-burning, desecration and renegade killings.
Today the news broke that United States officials, in a futile hope of quelling violence, have been party to a pernicious “catch-and-release” system that facilitated the secret release of high-level insurgent detainees, who are then free to strike at American forces again.
As American taxpayers try to process these indicators of a failing war, do they also know that their taxes are helping to bankroll the Taliban?
When I was embedded with American troops in insurgency-wracked eastern Afghanistan, soldiers began telling me that the U.S. government wastes tens of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on scandalously mismanaged aid and logistics contracts connected to the war. The soldiers told me there was a toxic system that links distracted American officials, private U.S. corporations, powerful Afghan insiders-and the Taliban. One way or another, everyone was in on the take.
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