$1 TRILLION 価値（がある） of US 失敗s in Afghanistan: DOD 報告（する）／憶測 涙／ほころびs into ‘mind-boggling’ mistakes from Bush to Biden, the US funneling money into 汚職 and 助言者s using 'American TV shows' for inspiration

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A damning new 政府 監視者 報告（する）／憶測 on Afghanistan 再建 明らかにする／漏らすd on Tuesday the 'many 失敗s' of the last 20 years in the nation.??

The 報告（する）／憶測, which relied on 13 years of oversight work, more than 760 interviews and thousands of 政府 文書s, 分析するd the 進歩 of the last two １０年間s, which it みなすd 'elusive' and sustainability of that 進歩, '疑わしい.'?

The 報告（する）／憶測 公式文書，認めるd that the US has now spent $837 billion on warfighting and $145 billion trying to 再構築する Afghanistan, during which 2,443 American 軍隊／機動隊s and 66,000 Afghan 軍隊／機動隊s were killed.

The nation has also spent $9 billion fighting?Afghanistan's あへん and ヘロイン 貿易（する）, but instead it has grown. And when the Biden 行政 発表するd a 撤退 of all 軍隊／機動隊s, it requested another $3.3 billion for Afghan 安全 軍隊s.??

In this picture taken on Thursday, April 17, 2014, an Afghan 農業者 作品 on a poppy field collecting the green bulbs swollen with raw あへん, the main 成分 in ヘロイン, in the Khogyani 地区 of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The US has spent $9 billion fighting 麻薬s in Afghanistan but the 麻薬 貿易（する） has 繁栄するd?

A U.S. Chinook 軍の ヘリコプター 飛行機で行くs above the US 大使館 in Kabul on August 15, 2021. A 監視者 報告（する）／憶測 みなすd US 進歩 in Afghanistan?'elusive' and sustainability of that 進歩, '疑わしい'

'Twenty years later, much has 改善するd, and much has not. If the goal was to 再構築する and leave behind a country that can 支える itself and 提起する／ポーズをとる little 脅し to U.S. 国家の 安全 利益／興味s, the 全体にわたる picture is 荒涼とした,' John Sopko, Special 視察官 General for Afghanistan 再建 (SIGAR) wrote in the 報告（する）／憶測 する権利を与えるd 'What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan 再建.'

The 報告（する）／憶測 did 公式文書，認める 進歩s in health care, maternal health and education.?

'The 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の costs were meant to serve a 目的―though the 鮮明度／定義 of that 目的 発展させるd over time,' によれば the 報告（する）／憶測.?

Inconsistent and short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 goals?

'At さまざまな points, the U.S. 政府 hoped to 除去する al-Qaeda, decimate the Taliban movement that hosted it, 否定する all テロリスト groups a 安全な 港／避難所 in Afghanistan, build Afghan 安全 軍隊s so they could 否定する テロリストs a 安全な 港／避難所 in the 未来, and help the 非軍事の 政府 become 合法的 and 有能な enough to 勝利，勝つ the 信用 of Afghans.?

Each goal, once 遂行するd, was thought to move the U.S. 政府 one step closer to 存在 able to 出発／死.'??

The 報告（する）／憶測 said that the US' 一連の short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 goals created 'counterproductive cycles.'?

'Short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 goals 生成するd short timelines, which created new problems that could only be 演説（する）／住所d by more short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 goals

When 非，不，無 of that worked, the U.S. 政府 developed yet another short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 goal: 身を引くing all 軍隊／機動隊s almost すぐに, even though it 危険d 奪うing the continuing 再建 使節団 of t he 職員／兵員 needed to 監督する 安全 援助.'?

The 分析 said that the 再建 成果／努力 'could be 述べるd as 20 one-year 再建 成果／努力s, rather than one 20-year 成果／努力,' 強調するing the 欠如（する） of a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 計画（する） in Afghanistan.

It said US 公式の／役人s underestimated the time and 頼みの綱s it would take to 再構築する Afghanistan, 主要な to short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 解答s like the 軍隊／機動隊 殺到する of 2009.??

Wasted money, unrealistic timelines?

Over the years, the 報告（する）／憶測 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the US failed to 器具／実施する a coherent 戦略 for what it hoped to 達成する. The US 器具／実施するd 'unrealistic' timelines that led to 注ぐing money into nation building too quickly, which led to 汚職.?

'Billions of 再建 dollars were wasted as 事業／計画（する）s went 未使用の or fell into disrepair.'?

About 80 パーセント of Afghanistan’s 予算 is 基金d by the U.S. and other international 寄贈者s, SIGAR 設立する in a previous 報告（する）／憶測.?

'I'd talk to infantry 指揮官s and ask what they need, and they'd say, 'Turn this money off. We're having to look for people and 事業／計画（する）s to spend money on,' one former 上級の USAID 公式の／役人 told SIGAR.?

貧しく trained 職員／兵員?

'The U.S. 政府’s 無（不）能 to get the 権利 people into the 権利 職業s at the 権利 times was one of the most 重要な 失敗s of the 使節団,' the 報告（する）／憶測 設立する.?

Staff were 貧しく trained and there were not enough people 仕事d with 監督するing 基金s 存在 分散させるd.?

'DOD police 助言者s watched American TV shows to learn about policing, civil 事件／事情／状勢s teams were 集まり-produced 経由で PowerPoint 贈呈s, and every 機関 experienced 年次の lobotomies as staff 絶えず 回転／交替d out, leaving 後継者s to start from scratch and make 類似の mistakes all over again,' the 報告（する）／憶測 設立する.?

Thousands of Afghans are trying to get on to flights out of the 資本／首都 に引き続いて the Taliban's seizure of the city. A US 兵士 is pictured 目的（とする）ing his 武器 at a 乗客 at Kabul airport

Some 改良s, at 広大な／多数の／重要な cost

And when US 軍隊s arrived in 2001, Afghanistan at the fourth worst GDP per capita in the world. By 2020, when adjusted for インフレーション, that number had only moved up to eighth worst.?

The 報告（する）／憶測 公式文書，認めるs that from 2001 to 2018, life 見込み in Afghanistan had jumped from 56 to 65 and the mortality 率 of children under 5 急落するd 50%, but said the 伸び（る）s are neither '維持できる' nor '相応した' with US 投資.?

One former 上級の 弁護 公式の／役人 told SIGAR: 'When you look at how much we spent and what we got for it, it's mind boggling.'??

No understanding Afghani cultural 状況?

It 設立する that US 公式の／役人s did not understand how their 介入 was 存在 受託するd socially and culturally.?

SIGAR said tha t 'for too long the U.S. 政府 held の上に the 仮定／引き受けること that it was creating a transparent, 支配する-bound Afghan 政府 from scratch in a way that would 利益 the public.'?

'The U.S. 政府 also clumsily 軍隊d Western technocratic models の上に Afghan 経済的な 会・原則s; trained 安全 軍隊s in 前進するd 武器 systems they could not understand, much いっそう少なく 持続する; 課すd formal 支配する of 法律 on a country that 演説（する）／住所d 80 to 90 パーセント of its 論争s through informal means; and often struggled to understand or mitigate the cultural and social 障壁s to supporting women and girls.'?

The 報告（する）／憶測 drew a 平行の between the US position now and its position after Vietnam.?

'After all,' the 報告（する）／憶測 said, '拒絶する／低下するing to 準備する after Vietnam did not 妨げる the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; instead, it 確実にするd they would become quagmires.'?

The 報告（する）／憶測 結論するd: 'There will likely be times in the 未来 when 謀反の 支配（する）／統制する or 影響（力） over a particular area or 全住民 is みなすd an 切迫した 脅し to U.S. 利益／興味s.

If the U.S. 政府 does not 準備する for that 見込み, it may once again try to build the necessary knowledge and capacity on the 飛行機で行く. As seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, doing so has proven difficult, 高くつく／犠牲の大きい, and 傾向がある to avoidable mistakes.'?

The 結論 comes まっただ中に 大混乱／混沌とした scenes as the Taliban takes over Kabul and 学校／設けるs a new 支配する over Afghanistan, as 大統領 Biden stands by his 決定／判定勝ち（する） to bring US 軍隊／機動隊s home.?

Ashraf Ghani, first elected 大統領，／社長 of Afghanistan in 2014, fled the country and the Taliban 宣言するd their own leader to be 大統領，／社長, as they overtook the 大統領の palace and 議会 building.?

For now, the US remains 焦点（を合わせる）d on 避難させるing 大使館 職員／兵員 and its 同盟（する）s.?

Biden has said the swift 引き継ぎ／買収 of Afghanistan 証明するs that the US could never have created a stable, democratic 政府 in the nation.???

'The events we're seeing now are sadly proof that no 量 of 軍の 軍隊 would ever 配達する a stable, 部隊d, and 安全な・保証する Afghanistan -- as known in history as the “graveyard of empires,' Biden said in 発言／述べるs on Monday.

'What is happening now could just as easily have happened 5 years ago or 15 years in the 未来. We have to be honest: Our 使節団 in Afghanistan has taken many missteps -- made many missteps over the past two １０年間s,' he 追加するd.?

'I'm now the fourth American 大統領 to 統括する over war in Afghanistan -- two 民主党員s and two 共和国の／共和党のs. I will not pass this responsibly on -- 責任／義務 on to a fifth 大統領.'?