Never in the History of the World
June 23, 2011 - by
Richard pointed to a newspaper article and said, We’ve built schools and hospitals and highways in Afghanistan to buy good will – but it’s backfired. On one project we paid Afghanistan contractors who turned around and gave $5 million to the Taliban.
He went on to explain how a professor at Marine Corps University reported that when we built the Kajahi Hydroelectric Dam half the electricity went to areas controlled by the Taliban, “enabling the Taliban,” the professor said, “to issue electric bills to consumers and send out collection agents with medieval instruments of torture to ensure prompt payment.”
We must be, Richard said, just about the dumbest country in the history of the world.
Never in the History of the World
June 23, 2011/
Richard pointed to a newspaper article and said, We’ve built schools and hospitals and highways in Afghanistan to buy good will – but it’s backfired. On one project we paid Afghanistan contractors who turned around and gave $5 million to the Taliban.
He went on to explain how a professor at Marine Corps University reported that when we built the Kajahi Hydroelectric Dam half the electricity went to areas controlled by the Taliban, “enabling the Taliban,” the professor said, “to issue electric bills to consumers and send out collection agents with medieval instruments of torture to ensure prompt payment.”
We must be, Richard said, just about the dumbest country in the history of the world.