"Over the last twenty years in Afghanistan, 2,443 Americans were killed and 20,666 were wounded, as $2.26 trillion were spent in the quixotic and foredoomed hope of transforming the graveyard of empires into a stable, Western-style republic.
But if you were to go to Afghanistan today to try to see the effect of all this profligate spending (which I wouldn’t actually advise, under the circumstances), you’d have an easier time spotting how American money was put to use in the luxury homes of former Afghan government officials rather than, obviously, in actual successes in pushing back the Taliban.
...residence of General Abdul Rashid Dostum in Mazar-i-Sharif...served as first vice president of Afghanistan...from 2016 until February 2020.
He was a vociferous foe of the Taliban and a key U.S. ally when the first Taliban regime was toppled...Read all.
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