Afghanistan’s Finance Ministry publicly condemned the latest US report about the billions of dollars in aid spending to the nation, cautioning that the misuse of funds was not the fault of the government and that future reports needed to be “more balanced.”
The latest report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction came last week, and cautioned that lack of oversight was allowing aid money to be diverted toward insurgents and in some cases to simply come up missing.
The report did not explicitly blame the government for everything, but pointed out that Afghan government designated VIPs are allowed to bypass a number of checks and are able in some cases to sneak cash out of the country.
The Finance Ministry, however, noted that of the $70 billion in aid spending only about $2.1 billion was ever actually in government hands, and of that only $46 million was given to them as discretionary spending. The Afghan government is regularly at the top of the list of most corrupt governments on the planet, however, so even that which is not directly in their hands is often tainted by the graft and bribery the nation operates on.
americans give no cash but in form aid which mostly used by american agents in the respective govt.
We don,t need american hegemony and best for the world is americans remains in limit and don,t kill around the world. worst state in the history.
Oh, well, I'm sure that took care of that rascally little problem.
On the one hand, I have to take the Finance Minister's objections with several grains of salt due to the overwhelming PROOF that generally speaking the government (the whole government) is corrupt. Now I realize that corruption is a way of life for the Afghans – it's the way they've operated for most of their history. Kind of like how the American government is corrupt – not in the same overt way – the American politicians/government officials are more finessed about how they do it.
On the other hand, sometimes you just get a peek at the real truth through the ineptness of amateurs…Perhaps it's true that only $2.1 billion actually made it to the Afghan government…that means that there are approximately $67.9 billion unaccounted for or poorly managed – by US agents.
Sound familiar??? Are these the same guys who were handling the $$$ in Iraq? Is this more of the rape of the American treasury – the transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to the MIC?
And off topic, a little, why aren't we hearing anything about ending the wars and the related savings that action would incur during any of the discussion (pissing matches) regarding the debt ceiling and the revamping of the American deficit spending? Not a word.