'For 15 years, a special inspector general created by Congress has been detailing the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayers by Afghan officials who had been handed over $90 billion since the war on terror began with the 9/11 attacks,' SecretsBedard writes.
Each report from the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction has detailed how funds were squandered, weapons stolen, and taxpayers abused.But in the latest audit, “Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed,” presumably one of the last, auditor John Sopko reviewed the final weeks, days, and hours of the U.S. effort and the hasty and deadly withdrawal of Americans from Kabul by President Joe Biden in August 2021.
A general theme of the oral history appendix was that Washington never understood how Afghanistan worked, that money would not buy victory, and that contracting out key jobs was a recipe for disaster. Another was how the White House expected a smooth departure and didn’t plan on the Taliban moving in so fast.
Several officials agreed with Gen. Sami Sadat, the former Afghan army corps commander, who complained that his efforts to stop the Taliban were thwarted by bureaucrats. “All operations became defensive, and we were not allowed to conduct offensive operations. We would get intelligence about Taliban massing, Taliban preparing IED factories, but unfortunately, at times, we were not allowed to do anything about it,” he said.
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