FLEECED! How aid billions were squandered in Afghanistan

(08 21 21) From article: How aid billions were squandered in Afghanistan: £4 million on Tuscan goats for the cashmere trade (those in charge could not even tell if the unfortunate goats ended up in a cooking pot. ‘We don’t know,’ said John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. ‘This was so poorly managed.’),
£120 million on Dubai villas for corrupt politicians and £400 million on aircraft left to rot.

Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy to the region, warned a decade ago that corruption was destroying efforts to create a fledgling democracy.

This farcical scheme perfectly symbolises the costly and corrosive folly of Western attempts to build a new society in Afghanistan, based on arrogance, arms and vast flows of aid.