Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity

The parallels between what's happening there with US taxpayer money and what's happening here in the US is just ironic to ignore.



We Americans are a generous lot, but we make too many assumptions without follow-up about what's being done in our names & with our money.



US policy for Afghanistan has been to win hearts and minds, create working democracies which are to make us in the US (& the whole world) safer through (re-)building their country, creating cities modeled on western ones, with infrastructures for supporting comfortable day-to-day living; roads, highways, homes, schools, hospitals, clean water, indoor plumbing/electricity, etc. Freedom from tyranny, with democratic governments & leaders of their choosing.



But in practice, we impose our preferred leaders/candidates on them. And we're using US taxpayer money to build McMansions for rich Afghans who don't even live in Afghanistan, who refuse to pay taxes in Afghanistan (which would go for building city services, like paved streets, street lights, public schools, police and other civic services). These rich Afghans, in turn, rent the McMansions out to western contractors, & then take the rent monies out of Afghanistan, spend it/deposit it in the countries where they're living (Dubai, UAE, etc.).



The average Afghan gets no benefit from US taxpayer aid, just the usual grief from being occupied by a foreign power (constant danger of being k!lled, maimed, uprooted, jailed, t0rtured, etc.).



They come to hate us, they join Al Qaeda, for good reasons.
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