The Cowboys of Kabul
Although their circumstances looked dire, the Spiers were about to become millionaires. By May, Barbara Spier had filed the paperwork to form a new corporation called US Protection and Investigations. Soon, thanks to the contracting sweepstakes that was the war in Afghanistan, she was signing an $8.4 million deal with the Louis Berger Group. The multinational construction and engineering company had landed a $214 million contract to rebuild Afghanistan's ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Mother Jones
The US should not be taking the lead in working out how best to lower the violence levels in Afghanistan, and squandering hundreds more billions of dollars (ponied up the taxpayers) is not in the national interest. Let Iran, Russia and China work out how to deal with the problems of Afghanistan.