Posted on May 9, 2015
GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
6.65K
20
18
5
5
0
Money down the drain
According to the below news article, the U.S. is considering spending millions (on top of millions already spent) to build a solar power plant in Kandahar.

(1) What are your thoughts on this? (2) Isn't it time for us to stop rebuilding the infrastructure of other countries and focus on rebuilding our own? (3) How is this kind of spending benefiting the American people (who, after all, are the ones paying for it)? (4) How is this kind of "investment" even sustainable, given our current debt?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/as-us-withdraws-from-afghanistan-darkness-falls-on-talibans-birthplace/2015/05/08/51ca4348-dd76-11e4-b6d7-b9bc8acf16f7_story.html?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more
Edited >1 y ago
Avatar feed
Responses: 13
CPT Multifunctional Logistician
3
3
0
In my three tours to Afghanistan I noticed a disturbing trend. Some of the locations and types of projects we were funding and providing security for were peculiar. I began to wonder if we weren't building things to draw Taliban attacks to us. Here we are spending millions of dollars on a project the locals want (just not where or when we wanted to build it) and it seemed to get attacked while building or destroyed shortly after completion. If we truly are only there in an advisory capacity then why are we building anything? That time has past, whether a tactic of war or to truly beef up their infrastructure, which will only be owned by the Taliban eventually. They are like dandelions in your yard. As soon as you have them all gone, the seeds from the neighboring yards blow into yours and they're back.
(3)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small
SSgt Forensic Meteorological Consultant
2
2
0
You would think we have a never ending supply of disposable income.
(2)
Comment
(0)
MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
>1 y
We do, so long as its not spent in, on or for the benefit the US. I heard its all referenced in the presidential "Book of Secrets"
(1)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small
SGT Rick Ash
1
1
0
We have to stop sending billions overseas. Remember that it is OUR money and tax dollars spent on infrastructure should be spent here as Gunny says above.
(1)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small

Join nearly 2 million former and current members of the US military, just like you.

close