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Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100906291Tallying up the U.S. waste in Afghanistan reconstruction
Published: Tuesday, 23 Jul 2013 | 11:27 AM ET
By: Jane Wells | CNBC Reporter
Americans sacrificed sons and daughters and spent billions of dollars to destroy the Taliban and rebuild Afghanistan.
As the U.S. winds down its mission there, it's becoming clear a lot of nation-building went off the rails.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has been ticking off the projects that it claims are expensive failures, warning that some troubled projects continue to move forward.
In the past three months, nearly $2 billion in questionable spending has been uncovered by SIGAR audits.
