Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko has issued another statement warning that Afghanistan faces near global blacklisting in the future because of its rampant corruption.
Afghanistan regularly lands at the top of lists of most corrupt nations on the planet, usually followed by admonishments from the US. Sopko warned that the lack of any specific US plan to tackle the corruption meant a lot of reconstruction efforts were wasted, and may wreck what reconstruction projects managed to get done.
While everyone seemingly shrugs off the corruption now, Sopko warned that may not be the case after the end of the year, when NATO will hype the drawdown as the “end” of the war. Afghanistan will at least nominally be standing on its own.
And it’s at that point that its ridiculous levels of corruption are going to start to cost it mightily, as a haven for money laundering where bribery is an expected part of government deals will inevitably start facing blacklistings.
This is all balderdash sour grapes coming from the losers. If the rest of the world suddenly disappears, Afghanistan can easily stand on its own.
And the military contractors continue to aid the corruption….."scratch my back and I'll scratch yours."
It seems as if those in condemnation of Afghanistan are themselves guilty of corrupting the interim government to satisfy and profit from their own glutinous ways, lest we forget, Afghanistan was under siege both economically and militarily since 1979, a tough road to hoe to this day. Give them an opportunity to come out from under and escape from the direction and appetite of these imperialistic-pariah nations and profiteers and they will!
Fruit dose not fall far from the tree. The problem is corruption in us presidential branch and nearly no oversight from Congress. I am surprises that the united states did not top the list get even that afganistan is occupied and technically not responsible for it predicament after ten years under the us iron fist.