Band-aid...

 

Pumping...

 

America’s war in Afghanistan presents a mystery: how could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little?

 Congress has appropriated almost eight hundred billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan; a hundred and thirteen billion has gone to reconstruction, more than was spent on the Marshall Plan, in postwar Europe. 

General David Petraeus, a principal architect of U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, encouraged the practice of pumping money into the economy of Afghanistan. 

He believed that money had helped buy peace during his command of American forces in Iraq. “Employ money as a weapons system,” Petraeus wrote in 2008. “Money can be ‘ammunition.’ ”

The result was a war waged as much by for-profit companies as by the military. The military outsourced any task that it could: maintenance, cooking and laundry, overland logistics, even security.  ; today, they outnumber them three to one.

One result has been forms of corruption so extreme that the military has, in some cases, funded its own enemy. When a House committee investigated the trucking system that supplied American forces, it found that the system had “fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others.” Its report concluded that “protection payments for safe passage are a significant potential source of funding for the Taliban.”  Just a thought.

Job...

 

Results...

 

This is the worse thing any official did in the past, other than starting wars. The trust that we all placed in the politician was not in its place.

In certain States, they have the Good Samaritan Law while apparently NYS haa the team of covering it up. 

What a sad story that we are still living in it until it resolved.  

Can Pelosi ask for investigation similar to her other investigations? Just a thought.

Bunch of Old...

 

The Democrats cann't wait to burry the story of their Hero Governor's and their Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco.  Couldn't blame it on the republicans so let us burry it, them.  

Just a thought.

Kivvit...

Two former staffers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who helped their ex-boss smear sexual harassment accuser Lindsey Boylan have left their jobs at a politically connected public relations firm with millions of dollars in state contracts, The Post has learned. 

Josh Vlasto and Richard Bamberger both former top Cuomo staffers who were named throughout the attorney general’s report into the governor’s “inner circle”  confirmed they had left their jobs as managing directors at PR firm Kivvit.

“We agreed to amicably part ways,” Vlasto and Bamberger said in a joint statement to The Post.

Kivvit — which has counted Google, Tesla, Citigroup, Lyft, Princeton University and the US Olympic Committee among its clients — had already scrubbed the pair from its website by Monday morning. 

Blame...

 

Gov Cuomo of New York State...., Gov Newsom of California, Biden's Wonderful Plan of leaving Afghnistan, Covid-19 mishandling, Nursing Home's death,  and no one to blame today. 

Just a thought

Russians..

 

We should have let the Russian in Afghanistan then, and make life easier for all.  Just  thought.

Joe-Jimmy Carter Biden...

 

MisJudged...

 

The administration struggled to project order amid a race by American and other foreign personnel to evacuate Afghanistan as Taliban fighters entered Kabul.

The rapid fall of Afghanistan's national forces and government has come as a shock to Biden and senior members of his administration, who only last month believed it could take months before the civilian government in Kabul fell -- allowing a period of time after American troops left before the full consequences of the withdrawal were laid bare.

Now, months after his initial declaration that all 2,500 US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of the summer, a total of 6,000 troops are expected to help facilitate the evacuation.

Yet the chaotic scenes playing out as that war ends evoking the fall of Saigon in 1975, an image that haunted Biden as he weighed a withdrawal earlier this year -- are certain to trail Biden as the Taliban asserts control over large swaths of the country.

Already, some members of Congress are demanding more information from the administration on how its intelligence could have so badly misjudged the situation on the ground, or why more robust contingency plans for evacuating Americans and their allies weren't in place.

The war on Iraq, and its consequences was lables as MisJudged.   Just a thought.