Whitewash: Biden Will Waste Massive Amounts Of Cash To Undo 'Sound' Trump Policies

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Whitewash: Biden Will Waste Massive Amounts Of Cash To Undo 'Sound' Trump Policies

U.S. spending in Afghanistan added billions of dollars wasted on vehicles and buildings that were later abandoned, showed a watchdog report published Monday. The news is even more somber now that President Biden has decided to continue supporting Afghanistan, a decision he has struggled with but ultimately went against Trump's pull out.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) explained that of $7.8 billion in spending since 2008, just $343.2 million was spent on buildings and vehicles that were “maintained in good condition” and just $1.2 billion went to vehicles and buildings that were put to their mean use.

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, said in a statement that the report showed “serious gaps” in U.S. spending strategies in Afghanistan.

“While I believe that targeted humanitarian relief and construction assistance for Afghanistan was and is warranted, this SIGAR Report exposes serious gaps in planning and contract execution and provides guidance on how U.S.-taxpayer resources must be more wisely and carefully allocated to ensure they do not go to waste,” Lynch stated.

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The report appears amid widespread public exhaustion with the war, America’s longest dispute. Former President Trump entered into a peace agreement with Taliban forces under which U.S. troops would retreat from the country by May 1 if the insurgents uphold certain counterterrorism promises. President Biden is still examining the agreement.

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For now, Biden's choices in Afghanistan boil down to this: withdraw all troops by May, as assured by his predecessor, or stay and perhaps continue the war in only hopes of forcing the Taliban to make peace with a weak and fractured government.

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The second option may be the most likely, though officials say no decision has been made.

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Biden has not discussed in detail Afghanistan since taking office, though he has a long history with the war. In 2009 as vice president, he lost an internal administration dispute at a vital juncture in the war; he fought for reducing the U.S. military commitment to focus largely on countering extremist groups, though President Barack Obama chose instead to vastly increase troop numbers to 100,000.

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Afghan officials and the Taliban have held on-and-off discussions in Qatar after the militant group spent years declining to acknowledge the Afghan government’s legitimacy.

Analyst Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal told The Associated Press the waste is a consequence of a combination of factors, including local corruption, Taliban attacks, and what he explained was a U.S. strategy of pumping money into ventures without sustaining them in the long term.

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“It is one thing to build a clinic and school, it is another to operate, maintain, and in many cases defend this infrastructure from Taliban attacks,” Roggio told the AP. "Additionally, the West has wildly underestimated the impact of Afghan corruption and in many cases incompetence. It was always a recipe for failure.”

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