2 hours ago8 America's most epic waste in Afghanistan: 486 million on airplanes sold for irons 6 cents
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Taliban's victory in Afghanistan has shocked the world, but it hasn't been so sudden in America because of the US's non-vision and business administration spending. The following are some of the most absurd cases of huge money spent in vain by Kosovo's biggest ally. United States of America [...]
The United States of America has spent more money on rebuilding Afghanistan than it spent on rebuilding Europe after World War II ended.
According to a report by spending monitors, Sigar, billions of dollars were spent on projects that were either useless or low standards, or waste of money or systematic abuse, the NBC reports, translates Periscope.
Paraphrasing Albert Einstein, the Special Inspector of Sigar appeared that the rampant American spending in Afghanistan was “the definition of madness by doing the same things over and over again, but waiting for different results.
- 486 million for a plane that was then sold for only $32,000
The Pentagon spent nearly half a billion dollars on 20 Italian planes that would later be sold for iron for only $32,000.
These planes were wrong about Afghanistan. America found it hard to convince Afghans to pilot them, and our pilots called them <x1...curvy” One pilot said their parts fell to the ground while they landed,” said the inspector.
Sixteen of these planes were sold for irons at six cents pounds.
- 335 million in the energy plant that used only 1 percent of its capacity
The Tarrakhil Energy facility was built in 2009 to replace the “with more sustainable energy” in the current that was frequently halted.
However, the plant "modern" design exported only 8,846 megavat hours of power between February 2014 and April 2015. This was just one percent of the facility's capacity, and only 0.05 percent of Calbul's electricity, the city of 4.6 million inhabitants, was available.
3. Almost $500,000 in buildings that were created from rain
American officials directed and supervised the construction of a training facility for Afghan police in 2012 that was built so badly that the walls were knocked down by the rain.
This building, cost 456,669 dollars in the province of Wardak, was nothing but shame, but most importantly, a waste of taxpayers' money” was said in the IGAR report.
SIGAR said the “breach” of the building had begun only four months after construction was complete.
- $4 million in a game program in a place that doesn't eat soybeans
“Afgans seem to have never planted or eaten soy before,” says the SIGAR report.
But that did not stop the Department of Agriculture from funding a 34.4 million programme for soybeans.
The “project failed to achieve expectations,” was confirmed for SIGAR, citing agricultural conditions in Afghanistan and the fact that no one wanted to buy the product that they had never eaten before.
They didn't plant them, they didn't eat them, there was no market for them, and yet we thought it was a good idea,” said Inspector Sopko.
- Hospital for $600,000 where babies washed with dirty river water
Despite spending $597 thousand from the Department of Defense at a hospital in the province of Parwan, conditions remained miserable.
Because there was no clean water, the staff started washing babies with river water,” said in the Sigar report.
- 36 million in military object that generals did not want
The object of the so-called '64K” in Afghanistan cost 36 million and was a total waste of American money.
This great object in the province of Helmand aimed to cope with American troop growth in 2010.
But, a year before the construction, the general himself at the head of troop growth demanded that it not be built because the existing objects were “rather than enough”.
- 3 million for purchase and then mysterious cancellation of eight boats
SIGAR's report said the US Army has had it impossible to offer accounts and to answer the most basic questions about the mysterious purchase and cancellation of eight boats in Afghanistan.
Of the few facts SIGAR managed to ensure it was taught that they were purchased in 2010 to be used by Afghanistan's National Police, and aimed at settling in the north river of the country at the Uzbekistan border.
- 8 billion in drug combat while Afghans grew more opium than ever
Despite the U.S. granted around 7.8 billion in the ban on Afghanistan's drug trade, Afghans planted more opium than ever.
Afghanistan became world leader in producing opium. In 2013, the value of Afghan opium was 3 billion ʹ equivalent to 15 percent of the country's GDP. /Periscope
