The candy stores of Oxford Street

Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by matthew40 on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:30AM (#31155362)

"Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy pattern would cost an extra $28 million. A healthcare facility listed as located in the Mediterranean Sea.

These are part of a catalog of "waste, fraud and abuse" complaints made against the United States' reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan -- an effort totaling $145 billion over 20 years -- made by the United States' own inspector general into the war. But the in-depth audits detailing these findings have, for the most part, been taken offline at the request of the State Department, citing security concerns."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spend...

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Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by boffinAudio on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:13AM (#31165142)

You can't honestly be comparing the heinous wastefulness of an out-of-control military industrial complex' spending, with the civil desire to instead be funding schools and water treatment plants and hospitals and universities, and roads and bridges and clinics and other civil institutions targeted for destruction in the initial hours of the Wests bombing campaigns against the people caught in our targeting reticles...

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