"Brigadier General Mohammed Asif Jabarkhel sits with folded arms in his office, just a few steps away from the security checkpoint at Kabul International Airport. 'Of course I know what's going on here,' the 59-year-old head of the airport's customs police grumbles from beneath his thick moustache as a fan whirs in the background. 'But, in this country, who's allowed to speak the truth?'"
Der Spiegel July 6, 2010
An estimated $3 billion has walked away, never to be seen again. The money goes to Dubai and the ruling elite have bought villas in a country without a tax collector. Since 2001 we have spent $300 billion and we have nothing, repeat nothing, to show for it. Spending money in Afghanistan is pouring dollars into a bottomless pit and wasting the military pointlessly.
It is a chapter in the grand game that should be remembered but won't be. Generals only write about their successful campaigns. They study what was done correctly rather than what was done wrong and that seems all backwards. The neocons have been proven wrong in all aspects of their beliefs yet we continue on with this neocon war, senselessly, mindlessly, morbidly and it should stop, today, this day, this hour, this minute.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
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