Failed U.S. Plan to Rebuild Afghanistan Cost $145 Billion

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Failed U.S. Plan to Rebuild Afghanistan Cost $145 Billion with Hundreds of Millions Going to Taliban

For nearly two decades the U.S. government spent a breathtaking $145 billion on a failed plan to rebuild Afghanistan and at least $26 billion of it was lost to waste, fraud and abuse, according to the final report published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The United States also left behind over $38 billion in military equipment and military and civilian infrastructure, the audit reveals, offering enraging details about the U.S. government’s costly debacle to restore a terrorist nation that promptly returned to Taliban rule the moment American troops left in 2021. Even after the Biden administration’s disastrous military withdraw, hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid kept flowing into the coffers of fake charities created by the Taliban. The terrorist group also received at least $239 million in development assistance because the State Department did not screen award recipients, failing to comply with its own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements before disbursing dozens of grants to local entities in the central Asian Islamic nation.

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