Moreover, Chatterjee tells us, "In 2004, there was a trucking contract with a company called PWC from Kuwait. They're driving things into Iraq, and they have hired drivers who are not competent, who can't drive these trucks. And the military says, 'We're not going to change anything. We know this was true.' Colonel Moreland himself said, 'There was a problem the first year.' I said, 'Well, why didn't you do something about it?' He says, 'Because, you know, we're at war." I mean, this is the reality. And this is why KBR knows it can get away with workers-particularly management, with charging a lot. It really is a culture of excess.'"
One could say that the U.S. military is just doing what it does best and neglecting the rest. However, one might also say that its incompetence in the realm of foreign languages leave officers with oversight duty unable to do their duties effectively once they leave the U.S. for foreign soil.
WHY IS THERE NOT BETTER OVERSIGHT OR SERVICE?
The American Spirit of we-can-do-it is a wash-out in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and elsewhere where international corporations pick off billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money due to the military's lack of in intelligience in language and cross-cultural skills. This is why there is a plethora of incapacities to do proper and fair accounting of what things are costing us all in this War on Terrorism.
Moreover, according to Chatterjee's research involving U.S. military brass in Iraq and Kuwait, historically speaking, in times of war, the U.S. military is typically not interested in holding the reigns on corruption and bad policy or procedures as long as things work-i.e. if the system isn't 100% broke, don't fix it.
Why not take this attitude when more and more money floods your weight despite linguistic and intelligence capabilities to see that money and resources are used efficiently?
Chatterjee doesn't mention that one half of the problem with the USA in the Middle East these days is that without proper people in place translating the goings-on around them to every single general and corporal, most American personnel in key positions to improve the status quo will not know what is going wrong until something hits them in the face.
Meanwhile, according to Chatterjee, the U.S. military and the U.S. government outsource so much intelligence gathering it is dangerous.
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