The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has revealed another bizarre and ultimately fruitless US expenditure in Afghanistan.
This time it was the State Department, which spent $3.6 million on equipment to gift to Afghan TV stations to upgrade the quality of live sports broadcasts on television there.
Interestingly, the SIGAR questions weren’t centered around why the State Department felt it was their job to spend millions of dollars trying to make televised sports in Afghanistan more compelling.
Rather, their problem was that, as is so often the case, the program didn’t accomplish anything, and even the modest goals of making TV broadcasts of Afghanistan’s weird horseback riders fighting over a stuffed goat game better went unmet.
That’s because the broadcast trucks bought with the $3.6 million, which were supposed to be given to the TV stations, arrived broken. Instead of trying to cancel the contract. the State Department has simply left them sitting under a tarp in Kabul, collecting dust.
