Why did the US military leave a massive cache of weapons in Afghanistan when they left? It’s already in the hands of the Taliban and possibly some other bad actors, ready to be used against the people we were trying to help. Sounds like something the previous occupant and his administration might have done.
There is a saying frequently used by foreign (particularly US) entities working in Haiti; “It’s Haiti!”, which is a reference to anything that is FUBAR, which is to say nearly everything. Haiti has been an unstable mess for over a century and has had the distinction of owning the lowest human advancement index in the western hemisphere forever. There’s nothing the US government can do to fix it, so stay the hell out. Most humanitarian efforts from NGOs, even though there are over 10k of them, make very little difference in the grand scheme of things, but God bless all of them for what they manage to do. You see, you can build an orphanage in Haiti but there is a 50/50 chance that the government will be so impressed with it that they’ll take it from you and use it for something else. They have no money to build anything and much of the foreign aid dough seems to end up in the pockets of the ever changing ruling class. Maybe they should ask France to re-colonize them!
Why did the US military leave a massive cache of weapons in Afghanistan when they left? It’s already in the hands of the Taliban and possibly some other bad actors, ready to be used against the people we were trying to help. Sounds like something the previous occupant and his administration might have done.
There is a saying frequently used by foreign (particularly US) entities working in Haiti; “It’s Haiti!”, which is a reference to anything that is FUBAR, which is to say nearly everything. Haiti has been an unstable mess for over a century and has had the distinction of owning the lowest human advancement index in the western hemisphere forever. There’s nothing the US government can do to fix it, so stay the hell out. Most humanitarian efforts from NGOs, even though there are over 10k of them, make very little difference in the grand scheme of things, but God bless all of them for what they manage to do. You see, you can build an orphanage in Haiti but there is a 50/50 chance that the government will be so impressed with it that they’ll take it from you and use it for something else. They have no money to build anything and much of the foreign aid dough seems to end up in the pockets of the ever changing ruling class. Maybe they should ask France to re-colonize them!