An incoherent strategy doomed the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan, watchdog says as US withdraws

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An incoherent strategy doomed the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan, a watchdog group says. The scathing report describes incompetence, graft, obfuscation and wishful thinking.

An incoherent strategy to rebuild Afghanistan, flush with resources but lacking cohesive leadership and a well-defined mission, doomed the 20-year US reconstruction effort that saw American taxpayers pour $145 billion into projects that were often unsustainable, corrupt, and forced through on unrealistic timelines.

The conclusions from the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction offer a scathing criticism of the US mission in Afghanistan just as the Biden administration is struggling to evacuate Americans and Afghans from the Kabul airport in a chaotic rush to the exits. The report, titled"What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction," points to how much work remains.

 

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The Afghan government chose not to prepare for US troops leaving! They have 300,00 soldiers, where were they? The US government is not responsible, have spent enough money on Afganistán! boycottCNN

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