China seeks military base in pakistan

@ bd popeye
According to "Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance" the US spent about $14b from 2002 up to and including 2010 on economic assistance to Afghanistan. A large part of that money was spent in ways most Afghans will have considered waste:
corruption, sending legal personnel and professors to the US, trying to improve the position of women, subsidizing NGO's.
Then is there payment to alleviate the destruction due to war. Does all that compensate for that destruction and what about the destruction due to the poppies eradication program that, strangely, is also part of the US assistance? The work of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams is, according to your previous post, largely wasted. So what part of the $14b can be honestly counted as real assistance and is experienced as such by the Afghans?

bd popeye said:

That's incorrect..

the US has spent Billions on aid in Afghanistan..read the following report.

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And how much of that aid was spent paying American companies and contractors?

The amount of money being paid out to private security outfits is frankly ridiculous when you consider how much American service personnel are being paid for doing the same, and far more dangerous jobs.

That is but one example, and it seems that the vast majority of that aid money has gone into enriching western companies and corrupt Afghan officials instead of helping improve the lot of ordinary Afghans.

How much real tangible benefit all those billions brought to the lives of ordinary Afghan civilians remains to be seen, and is certainly nowhere near as much as one would expect considering how much was spent.

At the end of the day, the Afghan people base their decisions, choices and opinions on actual, tangible results, and I am sorry to say, that there has been precious little of that in the last decade.

Americans just like to try out new weapons and test new systems, Afghans want what anyone else in the world wants, security, healthcare, jobs, schooling etc etc they are not some crazy heads they are people like us who just want a end to the wars and get on with life

problem is US has no intention of actually making any real difference to the people on the ground, when they had the chance when they were close to fixing Afghanistan like idiots they ran into Iraq after Saddam and spent $3 trillion on the war and left Afghanistan just like they did back in the late 1980s

in that respect British troops are doing a much better job than Americans, they wear soft hats and point gun downwards when they walk through markets and dont have fingers on triggers

on the other hand Americans have bully boy tatics, kicking down doors and shouting and yelling, what do you expect when u go into someone house behaving like that? a thankyou card, no u get either a RPG or AK47, or even a IED

its ok to send in a B2 Bomber to drop 1000lb bomb on a cave but its not ok to make a road to help Afghan farmers get produce to the markets

Americans have got this whole thing wrong, they have wasted 10 years and trillions of dollar they even admitted themselves, well then they should not complain when they dont have healthcare and soup kitchens back home

Thread closed.. for country bashing remarks..which by the way..never mind.




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