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enhanced_deficit
12-31-2015, 01:17 PM
Was this the goal SWC teams had in mind for all the nation building they has been dooin costing tax payers trillions of dollars and thousands American of lives/limbs?

December 26, 2015

Asia’s Least Developed Country Is Afghanistan: UN Report

This comes after the input of billions of US dollars into Afghanistan over the past 14 years but Afghanistan is still among the least developed countries

By Shakeela Ibrahimkhil
The United Nation's Human Development Office has ranked Afghanistan as 171, out of 188 countries, in the human development index.
The report has measured countries' development based on gender inequality, maternal mortality ratio, adolescent birth rate, share of seats in parliament, population with at least some secondary education and the labor force participation rate.
In this report, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi and Ethiopia are after Afghanistan while Norway, Australia and Switzerland are the first, second and third place respectively.


http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2015/12/26/asia-s-least-developed-country-is-afghanistan-un-report.html (http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2015/12/26/asia-s-least-developed-country-is-afghanistan-un-report.html#ixzz3vvW0byXv)




Afghanistan before & after US nation / freedom building intervention activities:

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Afghan contractor accused of bribing US soldiers, $63m in bank accounts frozen (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?487563-Afghan-contractor-accused-of-bribing-US-soldiers-63m-in-bank-accounts-frozen&)

Ronin Truth
12-31-2015, 02:05 PM
Another couple of trillions ought to clear that situation right up.

Zippyjuan
12-31-2015, 03:58 PM
That is actually an improvement.

http://en.actualitix.com/chart/afg/afghanistan-human-development-index.png

Dr.3D
12-31-2015, 04:06 PM
That is actually an improvement.

http://en.actualitix.com/chart/afg/afghanistan-human-development-index.png
Liked the first chart better, it showed they were always the least developed country.

enhanced_deficit
12-31-2015, 04:15 PM
That is actually an improvement.

http://en.actualitix.com/chart/afg/afghanistan-human-development-index.png


This shows impressive human development during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan throughout the 90s.

So are you saying Afghanistan is better off today after about 3 decades of US interventions/nation building/freedom spreading than it was in the 1960s/70s?

And some link not sourced to Afghan contractors businesses bilking US tax payers to show "progress" would help.

Zippyjuan
12-31-2015, 04:18 PM
Liked the first chart better, it showed they were always the least developed country.

Only a handful of countries were shown on that chart. Didn't mean they were the least of all countries.

Dr.3D
12-31-2015, 04:19 PM
Only a handful of countries were shown on that chart. Didn't mean they were the least of all countries.
Oh, okay... just out of those countries it looked like the least developed.

Zippyjuan
12-31-2015, 04:22 PM
All four of them. But yeah, the point is that they have always been among the poorest developed countries.

otherone
12-31-2015, 05:39 PM
The original Bush plan, IIRC, was "Bomb them back to the Stone Age".

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RJB
12-31-2015, 05:44 PM
The US foreign policy reminds me of the evil guy from the Stephen King novel Needful Things.

enhanced_deficit
01-01-2016, 02:37 PM
The US foreign policy reminds me of the evil guy from the Stephen King novel Needful Things.

"Evil" is often in the eyes of the beholder.

USAID Prints and Distributes Radical Islamic Books to Promote Violent Jihad Against Infidels
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GtsGeSU21Ng/VCldB1OKBnI/AAAAAAAAHuA/2BvN4lVKBOI/s1600/TextBook.png







The original Bush plan, IIRC, was "Bomb them back to the Stone Age".

https://sp.yimg.com/xj/th?id=OIP.M763aaf30507a7726a7034494b2d736d5H0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

US cost for bombs (domestically produced using efficient Lean processing) to do "stone age" in a place like Afghanistan or Iraq would be what, $20-30 million?
That is far cry from $4 Trillion and counting cost US tax payers are on the hook for so far for the stoning/bombing/freedoming operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Too many middle-men perhaps between building and dropping of each bomb.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/05/article-2045522-0E3DEF3E00000578-738_468x358.jpg






We still have idiots and puppetbags who want to keep doing what we has been dooin.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kissingercruz.png
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http://beforeitsnews.com/mediadrop/uploads/2015/09/cd02ae2718d4ef64dbb5d1ffe4f48817d6ad7b5c.jpg
Iraqi Freedom reverberations in Texas post Obama
http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/9_115655711905193_1324446356_n-vi-e1434842492927.jpg

The Gold Standard
01-01-2016, 02:48 PM
Is this a surprise? Since the government took over the responsibility of developing this country it has become less and less developed, and they aren't even bombing it yet.

enhanced_deficit
01-01-2016, 03:20 PM
Is this a surprise? Since the government took over the responsibility of developing this country it has become less and less developed, and they aren't even bombing it yet.

Are you suggesting there is multi-prong strategery underway there?
On the surface it seemed like a shock-n-awe freedoming situation.

Declassified CIA Manual Shows How US Uses Bureaucracy to Destabilize Governments (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?487483-Declassified-CIA-Manual-Shows-How-US-Uses-Bureaucracy-to-Destabilize-Governments&)


(ANTIMEDIA) When most people think of CIA sabotage, they think of coups, assassinations, proxy wars, armed rebel groups, and even false flags — not strategic stupidity and purposeful bureaucratic ineptitude. However, according to a declassified document from 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which later became the CIA, used and trained a curious breed of “citizen-saboteurs” in occupied nations like Norway and France.

The World War II-era document, called Simple Sabotage Field Manual, outlines ways in which operatives can disrupt and demoralize enemy administrators and police forces. The first section of the document, which can be read in its entirety here, addresses “Organizations and Conferences” — and how to turn them into a “dysfunctional mess”:


— Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
— Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
— When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
— Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
— Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
— Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
— Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

On its official webpage, the CIA boasts about finding innovative ways to bring about sabotage, calling their tactics for destabilization “surprisingly relevant.” While they admit that some of the ideas may seem a bit outdated, they claim that “Together they are a reminder of how easily productivity and order can be undermined.”

In a second section targeted at manager-saboteurs, the guide lists the following tactical moves:
— In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.
— Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.
— To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
— Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
— Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, paychecks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
Finally, the guide presents protocol for how saboteur-employees can disrupt enemy operations, too:
— Work slowly.
— Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can.
— Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
— Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

Ronin Truth
01-02-2016, 09:58 AM
Perhaps the Afghans could significantly raise the GDP of the country by going into the used military hardware business.

enhanced_deficit
01-02-2016, 10:05 PM
Perhaps the Afghans could significantly raise the GDP of the country by going into the used military hardware business.

Or we could send there more troops:

Top US general may seek more troops for Afghanistan (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/29/gen-john-campbell-afghanistan-taliban-isil/78033970/)
USA TODAY-Dec 29, 2015
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Is it all because of Obama's failed drone war ..

Dianne
01-02-2016, 11:00 PM
Yep .... Look at Detroit and Afghanistan ... That's what $176,000. per year salaries for Congress Critters working 150 days will get you; death and decay.

enhanced_deficit
09-17-2016, 04:37 PM
In latest freedom speading news:

US taxpayer billions lined pockets of corrupt Afghan warlords, says watchdog (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/13/us-taxpayer-billions-lined-pockets-corrupt-afghan-warlords-says-watchdog.html)

By Perry Chiaramonte
September 13, 2016

Government watchdog John Sopko says Afghanistan has been a money pit for US taxpayers, and corruption is rampant. (SIGAR)

The U.S. collaborated with Afghan warlords and crooked powerbrokers, lining their pockets with billions of taxpayer dollars and turning a blind eye to systemic corruption in the rebuilding effort that followed a grinding and costly war, a federal watchdog said Wednesday.
Speaking in conjunction with the release of a blistering new report, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko addressed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the astronomical amount of wartime waste expended by U.S. taxpayers.
“Considering that more than 2,300 Americans have died in Afghanistan and that Congress has appropriated nearly $115 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction -- a number that does not include [the estimated $680 billion] spent on U.S. military operations there -- it would be an absolute dereliction of duty not to try to extract lessons from 15 years of struggle,” he said.




US Military Protecting Child Abuse in Afghanistan (http://www.christianpost.com/news/us-military-protecting-child-abuse-in-afghanistan-opinion-169642/)

Christian Post-9 hours ago
Some of our purported allies in Afghanistan abuse young boys. And the U.S. military wants to protect them. Not the boys. Our so-called allies.