Afghanistan’s Pentagon: US Spending $92 Million on Massive Building
US Spurns Afghan Calls for Changes in Building Design
The US military is building a massive new “Pentagon” style command center for Afghanistan’s military, with a $92 million budget aimed at creating the ambitiously large building in the capital of Kabul.
Following in a long trend of embarrassing US plans, the building is already coming under fire, as Afghanistan’s Defense Minister has complained that the design is all wrong, and has pushed for changes to layout. The US military rejected the calls.
“We could do them, but we’re not going to do them,” noted NATO’s engineering director Col. Andrew Backus, saying that the goal is to hurry up and finish the building, and then let the Afghans do what they want after its already built.
Past US projects in both Afghanistan and Iraq have often fallen into disuse after completion, designed in a way that made the military happy but were completely unsuited to their intended use.
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Shule
July 1st, 2012 at 10:33 pm
It be nice to have some make work pork projects here at home.
08oo
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:26 am
At home you could not hide opium production and distribution.
So it is better in Afghanistan and using their drug mafia-state Kosovo. The first time a drug mafia got a state for worldwide drug distribution in diplomatic luggage !
08oo
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:29 am
This building will attract many shells and bombs.
Wildey
July 2nd, 2012 at 10:46 am
So! we're building castles, pentagons, in our vassal countries. We've got one in Iraq and probably other countries as well. I've been in the one in Jordan. When Bush Sr. screamed for a "New world order" people didn't realize what he had in mind.
Look, America might have enough guns to rule the world but it has zero commodities to back the printing of Federal Reserve Notes FRN's. If all oil "black gold" is traded with nothing but FRN's, the central banks backed by America's guns can probably do just that, they hope. Afghanistan is reported to have over six trillion FRN's in lithium deposits, the largest in the world. With the battery business booming, why not make Afghanistan anothr vassal country?
LargeScaleAggressor
July 2nd, 2012 at 11:01 am
That's the best part! Then they can keep wasting taxpayer money repairing it.
Anti_Govt_Rebel
July 2nd, 2012 at 11:32 am
Another Iraq embassy.
John_Muhammad
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Ask the French about fixed installations in enemy territory; the defenders of Dien Bien Phu might have a few choice words on the subject. Ditto for the Marines at Khe Sanh.
carl
July 2nd, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Too bad China's in so deep. Otherwise they could just pull the plug. These fucking scumbags are absolutely shameless. They'll let American children rot and starve while the steal hand over fist — rich motherfuckers stealing from American kids while they murder the poorest children on earth. What's next? Ovens?
08oo
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Even US consulates IN GERMANY (!) look like fortresses ! Barrages, barbed wire and police cars and police men with machine guns. According to US papers: THE WORLD BELONGS TO US
http://www.centcom.mil/images/stories/unified-com…
08oo
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Even US consulates IN GERMANY (!) look like fortresses ! Barrages, barbed wire and police cars and police men with machine guns. According to US papers: THE WORLD BELONGS TO US
http://www.centcom.mil/images/stories/unified-com…
08oo
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:22 pm
You should know that business related with stealing resources worldwide is more profitable than this. Do not expect to get anything from their profits – in opposite, they want poor and hopeless US citizens, because they need them as soldiers.