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15th September 2015, 13:57
by Brian Cloughley
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/09/06/falling-and-failing-in-heroin-country.html
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While President Ghani was in his hospital bed in Bonn the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) submitted his quarterly report (https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2015-07-30qr.pdf) to Congress in which he stated that «As of June 30, 2015, approximately $109.7 billion had been appropriated for Afghanistan relief and reconstruction since 2002».
Very few of us can think in billions. Such sums are mind-bogglingly immense...
In spite of the billions of dollars that America has poured into Afghanistan, the country does not have a hospital in which its president can have a simple foot operation in comfort and safety. He had to travel to Europe for an ankle job in spite of the vast sums the US has provided for health care. The SIGAR (https://www.sigar.mil/) (the most unpopular man in official Washington) reported that «US assistance disbursed to Afghanistan’s health sector totalled more than $920 million as of June 30, 2015… assistance to the Ministry of Public Health provides basic health-care and essential hospital services…US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding supports 659 health facilities in 13 provinces». But President Ashraf Ghani couldn’t have a simple operation on his ankle in his own country.
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Since 2002 US «Drug Interdiction & Counter-Drug Activities» in Afghanistan have cost over 8 billion dollars, but in spite of this massive expenditure the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/)) reports that «opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan reached record levels, with the former increasing seven per cent to 224,000 hectares (550,000 acres) in 2014». In 2001, before foreign military forces arrived in Afghanistan there were 3,200 hectares (8,000 acres) of poppy fields.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/09/06/falling-and-failing-in-heroin-country.html
http://www.strategic-culture.org/images/news/2015/09/06/s33042.jpg
While President Ghani was in his hospital bed in Bonn the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) submitted his quarterly report (https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2015-07-30qr.pdf) to Congress in which he stated that «As of June 30, 2015, approximately $109.7 billion had been appropriated for Afghanistan relief and reconstruction since 2002».
Very few of us can think in billions. Such sums are mind-bogglingly immense...
In spite of the billions of dollars that America has poured into Afghanistan, the country does not have a hospital in which its president can have a simple foot operation in comfort and safety. He had to travel to Europe for an ankle job in spite of the vast sums the US has provided for health care. The SIGAR (https://www.sigar.mil/) (the most unpopular man in official Washington) reported that «US assistance disbursed to Afghanistan’s health sector totalled more than $920 million as of June 30, 2015… assistance to the Ministry of Public Health provides basic health-care and essential hospital services…US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding supports 659 health facilities in 13 provinces». But President Ashraf Ghani couldn’t have a simple operation on his ankle in his own country.
...
Since 2002 US «Drug Interdiction & Counter-Drug Activities» in Afghanistan have cost over 8 billion dollars, but in spite of this massive expenditure the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/)) reports that «opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan reached record levels, with the former increasing seven per cent to 224,000 hectares (550,000 acres) in 2014». In 2001, before foreign military forces arrived in Afghanistan there were 3,200 hectares (8,000 acres) of poppy fields.