Making a Profit from U.S. Fears in Afghanistan

Highlighting the catastrophic failure of the U.S.’s rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Report (PDF) (page 38), shows that of $512.9 million allocated to Medical clinics from 2002-2008, only $94.7 million was disbursed. Ann Jones, a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2006, unequivocally condemns the Bush administration’s efforts there: “The Bush administration perpetrated a scam. It used the system it set up to dispense reconstruction aid to both the countries it ‘liberated,’ Afghanistan and Iraq, to transfer American taxpayer dollars from the national treasury directly into the pockets of private war profiteers. Think of Halliburton, Bechtel, and Blackwater in Iraq; Louis Berger Group, Bearing Point, and DynCorp International in Afghanistan. They're all in it together.” Jones explains a few iniquitous elements of U.S. foreign aid:
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