(Kabul) A US government report reveals corruption and waste have pushed the cost of reconstruction beyond the total spent under the Marshall Plan. The cost of rebuilding Afghanistan has exceeded the amount of money spent putting Europe back on its feet after the Second World War, it has been disclosed.
American taxpayers have provided £61.5 billion since 2002 and Britain about £890 million, for hundreds of development projects. The military operation has cost America a further £296 billion and Britain £22 billion. However, the US watchdog on American spending in Afghanistan says that most of the projects it analysed were undermined by “poor planning, shoddy construction, mechanical failures and inadequate oversight”.
The Marshall Plan cost the equivalent of £61 billion at today’s prices, says the report, which was presented to the US Congress this week.
Makes you ask the question, should we really be pouring money down the drain for people who belong to an intolerable belligerent religion and who at the end of the day not only hate us, but have it written into their DNA that we should all be put to the sword?
American taxpayers have provided £61.5 billion since 2002 and Britain about £890 million, for hundreds of development projects. The military operation has cost America a further £296 billion and Britain £22 billion. However, the US watchdog on American spending in Afghanistan says that most of the projects it analysed were undermined by “poor planning, shoddy construction, mechanical failures and inadequate oversight”.
The Marshall Plan cost the equivalent of £61 billion at today’s prices, says the report, which was presented to the US Congress this week.
Makes you ask the question, should we really be pouring money down the drain for people who belong to an intolerable belligerent religion and who at the end of the day not only hate us, but have it written into their DNA that we should all be put to the sword?
