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Nor can I assure you that the Taliban are not diverting the money we are sending from the intended recipients, which are the poor Afghan people, i would just say, I have n’t seen a starving Taliban fighter on TV, they all seem to be fat, dumb, and happy.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the Taliban, unfortunately, as I sit here today, I can not assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Early on, we realized that we were building things in Afghanistan that the Afghans didn’t need, didn’t want, didn’t even know they were getting and couldn’t sustain, we have to make certain we go into Ukraine and listen to the Ukrainians on what they need, what they want, what they can sustain.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we talk about the lack of cooperation by DoD, we’ve got emails, and we’ve got memo traffic to support everything we said about their lack of cooperation, i know one nameless, faceless bureaucrat in the Pentagon said, ‘Oh, well, somebody came over once.’ No, no, we have the paperwork.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Although not all such attacks are expressly prohibited by the text, U.S. officials had said they expected the level of violence to remain low after the agreement came into effect.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I dont think it makes sense, the Afghan people know which districts are controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban obviously know which districts they control. Our military knows it. Everybody in Afghanistan knows it. The only people who dont know whats going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and thats the American taxpayer.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Including U.S. war funding unrelated to reconstruction, U.S. appropriations for Afghanistan now totals more than three quarters of a trillion dollars -- not including the $ 43.7 billion requested for fiscal year 2017.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We need to understand why U.S. and Afghan anticorruption efforts have consistently fallen short of their objectives, we need to understand how U.S. policies and practices unintentionally aided and abetted corruption, while fostering the perception among Afghans that the international-assistance effort is itself corrupt.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The bottom line is too much has been wasted in Afghanistan. Too much money was spent in too small a country with too little oversight, and if the security situation continues to deteriorate, even areas where money was spent wisely and gains were made, could be jeopardized.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our agency wasn't created until half the money or more was spent.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we can't get out there ... we can't see if the troops are getting shoes, or getting bullets, or getting grenades, or getting paid, and the security will have an impact on that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We spent more money than we've spent in any country in the history of the United States, more money than the Marshall Plan, so it's big bucks, what does this tell us, so the next time we do this, maybe we can do a better job? So I actually think of all the things we do, that may be the legacy that I want to leave.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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