The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has announced that it has found major flaws in the Pentagon’s $5.7 billion logistical plan for the drawdown of troops and equipment from Afghanistan and is telling them to make serious changes.
At the core of the complaint is that the Pentagon has a dubious inventory of what they actually have in Afghanistan, and that they aren’t even trying to figure out whether they should bother to ship things back in the first place.
The first half of the problem is well documented, as NATO has reportedly considered a “surge” of troops into Afghanistan just to go through all of the shipping containers various nations sent to the occupation and never bothered to open. This could open up a new round of fraud investigations, since when Canada got around to doing this they discovered many of their crates had been looted and filled with rocks and sand.
The second half may be an even bigger deal though, as with little idea what is in all those shipping containers, there has also been no consideration of whether it is even worth shipping them back stateside, or just leaving whatever is in them for the Afghans.
How about taking an inventory of our war criminals- neocons, et al (including Petraeus, of course)- and then stuffing them in the shipping containers we are leaving stateside, before transferring them to the Afghans (Taliban or government police or even the infamous Gen. Dostum- who cares which group?) to interrogate and then "tickle", or just dispense with the formalities and "shake and bake". It would be a fitting ending to the Petraeus "surge" and counter intel savagery. Moreover, since the U.S. wouldn't be doing any torturing, no one in the Administration could be held responsible, right, judge? As for the drones- the IAF could experiment with the latest target technology- on the shipping containers of course- but only with Mr. Brennan's and El Jefe's solemn, albeit very private, blessing. (After all, we wouldn't want to deny due process to any American citizen.)
For any government trolls- this is intended as Swiftian satire (if you guys know what that is). This commentator doesn't advocate violence, only a full judicial process and war crimes trial for each of the above fellas.
9/10/2001: Rummy announces he's lost a few trillion.
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2012-2013: Just who was this superfluous equipment that may or may not be in Afghanistan intended for?
The solution. Send in the airliners-extract all THE POOR DUPED TROOPS. Burn all the equipment. Spend the money on POOR DETROIT..
what did they do in iraq?
brand new heavily modified truck gets a flat tire?
touch the the damn thing and order a new one!
Load all thge poor duped troops onto planes and get them out of that dirty hell hole. Leave the equipment. Enough of this madness already. NOW TAKE CARE OF DETROIT–YOU TRAITOROUS SCUM IN DC
I say ship it all back – dump it all in one big pile on some place handy to Washington DC like on Andrews AFB and call it a sacred monument to US patriotism, militarism and the need for revenge – " May We Never Forget"!
"…shipping containers various nations sent to the occupation and never bothered to open."
Is it possible that they didn't bother to open the containers because they knew/know that there is nothing of value in them – the question might be how long after they hit the ground (on the docks in Pakistan?) that they were cleaned out – or – if there was anything in them to begin with.
There are many challenging provide sequence training to be discovered from the scenario in Asia, and US producers (and others) are already suffering from parts/materials shortages. This should be an useful occasion.
There are many challenging provide sequence training to be discovered from the scenario in Asia, and US producers (and others) are already suffering from parts/materials shortages. This should be an useful occasion.