Afghanistan to be a challenge

According to this article the U.S. and staff are spending 32 billion dollars and counting on rebuilding Afghanistan. To top it off they said that it is going to take additional staff and more funding to successfully complete the job. This is all according to the new inspector general in charge of the audits. Arnold Fields, who is the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said this to congress, "rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan will be exceedingly difficult and complex, since the country has no substantial natural resources, a population devastated by decades of war and an ongoing insurgency." This report he gave to congress, according o this article, was obtained on Friday by The Associated Press ahead of its public release. U.S. has contributed $32 billion to Afghanistan's reconstruction since 2001 and other nations combined have only contributed $25.3 billion. Fields says that there will need to a minimum of 90 more employees on this whole Afghanistan effort. The initially authorized $20 million for the auditing effort but up to date has only appropriated around $16 million.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445908,00.html

I read some of "Matt Hemingway's blog" at http://obamarejectsbushiraqwithdrawlplan.blogspot.com/ which was about the Taliban and all they have done in Iraq. The specific blog of his that I read was titled Officials: Taliban fighters ambush, kill bus passengers which pretty much speaks for itself. When Arnold Fields said it wasn't going to be an easy task reconstructing Afghanistan he was right I mean look at what the Taliban did and/or are doing. In Matt's blog he talks about a time when the Taliban captured and killed 30 to 40 bus passengers and how the Taliban spokesperson told everyone they had killed 27 Afghan soldiers too. It is said that Afghanistan has to be overrun by the Taliban but the truth of the matter is that they are and the U.S. and company are trying to stop it. Unfortunately I think that this could possibly turn into another "Iraq". I don't really know what to think but what is certain in my mind is that the U.S. keeps continuously giving out even when it hurts the most... like in times of crisis. We have very big problems of our own at the moment but we still keep trying to help others... it makes me proud to be an American. Although my patriotism is at a high right now I sill think we should make sure we are doing the right thing and not letting our American soldiers or any soldiers for that mater, die for no reason. I am just a high school student that doesn't really like war, but with that said I believe it is necessary in some situations...who knows maybe our money can fix this problem...maybe it can't. Matt and I are on the same page I believe...the only difference would be is I don't know if we should be there with troops right now. What I mean is that I don't know why we have to have our people die for other people. I get the whole "If we get out now everything will have gone to waste" idea but why the heck did we go there in the first place? I am going to research this some more and get back to you next time. Until then keep it real.
~Charlie~