Expensive and Useless: America's Botched Afghanistan Aid

Expensive and Useless: America's Botched Afghanistan Aid

USAID can't even reliably tell you where its projects are.

 

It’s not clear how the twenty trainees taking a luncheon buffet break in the Serena Hotel will achieve the same effect.

Dr. Cheryl Benard is the author of several RAND Corporation studies on post-conflict reconstruction, women in development and issues of corruption in Afghanistan. She is currently the director of the Alliance for the Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in Washington, DC.

 

Image: Maj. Deidre Lockhart shows a local child her iPhone during a humanitarian aid mission to a local hospital in the Dehdadi District. Flickr/DVIDSHUB.