Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Is Afghanistan synonymous with failure?
Or do we just fail at everything we try there? Consider the plan to bolster the Afghan security forces, a major element of our removal from the Kabul Quagmire.
EXTRA: Karzai of the Afghans ain't doing us any favors.
The Obama administration's $11.4 billion plan to bolster Afghanistan's security forces is "at risk" because of poor planning, a government watchdog agency concluded in a report released Wednesday.It seems we can't even put a Potemkin like polish on the shit we can't build. Makes a fellow wonder if we can rebuild our own country if we ever come home.
Auditors with the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said the U.S. government "could not provide the plans or justifications" for building nearly 900 police stations and garrisons and other facilities for Afghanistan's national security forces.
The report confirms earlier findings in a series late last year by McClatchy that found the ambitious strategy, like much of the wider Afghan reconstruction effort, is faltering. The program is a linchpin of President Barack Obama's strategy to strengthen Afghan security forces so 100,000 U.S. troops can come home by the end of 2014.
EXTRA: Karzai of the Afghans ain't doing us any favors.
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