Gee, nine years after the US first sent in its soldiers to Afghanistan, America suddenly realizes it has a problem with corruption and profiteering. Oh really?
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon has set up a crack A team to investigate contractors who have been siphoning off cash and enriching Afghan power brokers. Of particular concern is the practice of construction firms using a string of sub-contractors to shift billions of dollars to shell companies. The money then disappears, usually into foreign bank accounts.
And you can bet the problems are going to get worse. Instead of the US finding Osama Bin Laden there, we have reports of a US geological survey discovering that Afghanistan has $US3 trillion in reserves of lithium, iron, copper, gold, mercury, cobalt and other minerals. The New York Times reports that JP Morgan, fresh from helping to screw over the US financial system, has just sent a team of mining experts to Afghanistan to examine possible projects to develop.
The US has shown a complete inability to control and monitor the contracts going out the different companies in Afghanistan and that's unlikely to change. You can be sure this latest discovery is going to make the corruption problem even worse and make this war even dirtier.
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