I dunno if this has already been posted, but I just finished watching it on the daily show.
[QUOTE] The United States military is helping fund both sides of the war in Afghanistan, knowingly financing a mafia-like collection of warlords and some of the very insurgents American troops are battling, according to Afghan and American officials and a new Congressional study released today. The military has turned to private trucking companies to transport the vast majority of materiel it needs to fight the war -- everything from bullets to Gatorade, gas to sandbags -- and in turn, the companies are using American money to pay, among others, the Taliban to try to guarantee the trucks' safe passage, the reports charge.
Trucking executives and investigators from the House Subcommittee on National Security say the United States military knew it was helping fund the people it was fighting but did nothing about it, choosing to satisfy short-term delivery requirements and ignore fears that payments to the enemy help perpetuate Afghanistan's long-term security problems.
The study's findings are reinforced by half a dozen interviews conducted in the last few months by ABC News with executives from trucking and security companies, both Afghan and American. Two American trucking executives, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say the payment structure goes beyond that depicted by the House report, detailing an intricate system whereby the American military is handing over billions of dollars to companies that bribe insurgents, warlords, road bandits and even corrupt Afghan police and soldiers to hold their fire as the trucks roll past dangerous stretches of highway. [/QUOTE]
[url=http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/united-states-military-funding-taliban-afghanistan/story?id=10980527]Source[/url]
Apparently it's much worse than we thought. The gist of it was, following the Wikileaks scandal, information was released pretty much stating that the US government's funds being sent to relieve Pakistan are being used to support the Taliban.
It's sickening.
I could understand it if they didn't know the money was going to the Taliban after they payed the truckers, but they do, so all I can say is "Fucking really?"
Yup. That article is older, I'm trying to find a more recent one about it. That was before the wikileak thing IIRC.
Pretty fucking sad that they withheld it from the public and still haven't addressed it.
Also, then r8 l8 m8. That's why I said I wasn't sure if it was posted. It's getting a shockingly low amount of coverage for the severity of the problem.
:sigh:
I'm not surprised. This is why I love WikiLeaks.
This is why I want too leave this country.
why cant this war just be over :(
Is there really no other way for transportation of supplies? None? God I wish this war would end. I hate hearing about all these dead soldiers who died in there 20s-30s. Its just sickening. I don't mind religion, I mind religious extremists, and this war is why.
[QUOTE=skynrdfan2;23702609]why cant this war just be over :([/QUOTE]
These kinds of wars never end man, it's a cruel fact of guerilla warfare.
The US is a conventional army fighting and outmatching the other army when they fight conventionally so the other army changes and adapts, no big formations just small groups hiding in the hills and harassing the US army.
It's not ending, you guys are just gonna have to bail out of there as fast as you can.
That's it. I was in favour of staying in Afghanistan because I thought we could actually achieve something and improve the situation. Now I realise that it's just a waste of time as long as the US government is in charge because they are just completely clueless.
Time to leave.
this happened in WWII also
[QUOTE=Atomic elephant;23711737]this happened in WWII also[/QUOTE]
What happened in WWII also?
The US supported a Pakistani Taliban?
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