The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blasted successive U.S. administrations for lacking the 'necessary mindset, expertise, and resources to develop and manage the strategy to rebuild Afghanistan' in its latest report.
Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 4th squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment walk through a village during a joint patrol with soldiers from the Afghan National Army on March 2, 2014, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
"We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan," Douglas Lute, who oversaw the war for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2007 to 2013, told SIGAR."We didn't know what we were doing."In this April 3, 2010, file photo, U.S. soldiers walk during a patrol in Yosef Khel district of Paktika province in Afghanistan.
These failures in reconstruction, in particular, had critical impacts on a local level, according to the report, undermining U.S. efforts to erode support for the Taliban and build faith in the Afghan government."In the majority of districts, we never even heard the real problems of the people," Jabar Naimee, who served as governor of three Afghan provinces, told SIGAR.
"DOD police advisors watched American TV shows to learn about policing, civil affairs teams were mass-produced via PowerPoint presentations, and every agency experienced annual lobotomies as staff constantly rotated out, leaving successors to start from scratch and make similar mistakes all over again," the report said.
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