Of its independence. In 2019, the Washington Post published a part of the secret documents on the us presence in afghanistan. The documents were known as the afghanistan papers. A curious journalist at the Washington Post. Craig. Whitlock, a person who had been investigating afghanistan for a while and had been gathering documents. He published several thousand pages of documents, including interviews with scores of us generals and diplomats on security issues, but how did whitlock manage to do that . 2,00 pages of documents of of interviews that had been kept under wraps for number of years in which people who were in charge of the war admitted that. Uh the strategy was a mess, that they misled the american public. This important event happened after he got to know special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction segar, an organization that was established by the us congress in 2008 to inspect the reconstruction in afghanistan. General john sapco is the head and special inspector of the organization. John sapco is the most important us figure in the reconstruction of afghanistan. He agreed to gradually leak some documents to the Washington Post and his cooperation with Craig Whitlock from 2007. Of any Inspector General ive probably been the most forthcoming on information. The revelations by john sopko on the process of reconstruction in afghanistan during the 20 years were a clear example of burnt documents. Despite its economic capacity. Afghanistan is among the weakest economies in the world. Afghanistan was among the poorest countries in the world until 2020, if not the poorest country. Poverty is natural outcome of poor economy and longrunning wars in a country. Afghanistan is the poorest country in. Asia, in fact, it is the poorest country uh in the world, except for about five eight, depending on how you measure it, countries in africa. Under such circumstances, it isnt surprising that the country has been ranked the first or second country with the highest of rate of immigration during these years. Uss construction project was apparently answer to the ruins in afghanistan and was meant to prove that the us has brought prosperity to any country its entered. Based on an official report by segar, the us spent 143 billion dollars until 2021 for afghan reconstruction. Americas 10. Billion dollar investment in afghans reconstruction, yet Living Conditions in afghanistan continue to remain critical, so what happened to the whapping budget . The answer to the question has to do with the companies and contractors that have received the money from the us government. So we have to look into the matter a little to see what exactly john supco. The special inspector of afghan reconstruction has faced. One of the most important factors in the poverty crisis of a country is food in security. Based a report by the center. For strategic and international studies, csis, afghanistan was among the 10 countries in the world with the worst food and security condition in 2020. Increasing it of those that are food andsecure, as i said, we were already estimating 14 million, now were up to 20 million with a drought. The biggest food problem in afghanistan is lack of protein. Meat or Dairy Products do not exist sufficiently in this. Poor country, on the other hand, the poor Afghan Society cannot buy american products, but in a longterm reconstruction plan, the country can become a consumer of american agriproducts, that we produce a lot more food than we can consume, and so its critical for us to find markets abroad and foreign assistants uh and the food for Peace Program and so many other programs like it, soy bean as a complete plan protein was investment with future insight. The us started investing it in afghanistan in 2003. Soy bean uh is a good tool for fighting malnutrition for them, and then it also helps us in our goals to uh build the agribusiness sector and create jobs and to legitimize the government of afghanistan. In fact, the pentagon pay the ground so a Us Organization can develop soy bean production in afghanistan. Nutrition and education international, also known as ney, thats n. E. , based in passadina, california. The company ceo is stephen quan. He is one of the former managers of nestley in the us. Nestly is the Largest Food Company in the world. Quan got involved in the afghan Food Industry in 2003. At the beginning, his company was mostly like a charity. When i heard about so many women and children are dying in this country due to malnutrition, i felt that i should do something uh is as a person who is in charge of nutritional problem. Besides the pentagon and the nei, the Us Department of agriculture also got involved in the strategic field of food in afghanistan. Uh, we not only have to win this on the ground, we have to win it in the ground. Along the lines of this policy, the american soy bean association, the asa supported by the Us Department of agriculture signed contracts with the afghan officials. Jim hershey as a representative of the soy being association, along with stephen quan was among the most important us figures who entered afghan Food Industry. Jims go was to link soy bean consumption in afghanistan to the asa in the long run, accessible, available, affordable and acceptable. The nei and the asa were after bigger advantages in afghan reconstruction that would lead to bigger contracts. Action between stephen quand and jim hershey led to Major Contract with the Us Agriculture department is protein deficient, theres not enough protein in the market, theres not enough protein in some of the households. A project that was worth 26 million to develop soy bean production in afghanistan, but the contract was only a part the soybean fund for afghanistan. After 2003, the American Soybean Association and the nei got bigger funds, whose total amounted to 34 million, but in 2014, the center for Public Integrity said the us soy being project in afghanistan was a complete failure. The center said the reasons for the failure of the project were adverse. Weather conditions in afghanistan and lack of the necessary infrastructure. And finally, a multimilliondollar project to cultivate soybeans in afghanistan seemed like a good idea four years ago, but an ig report obtained by the center for Public Integrity shows the project may have been doomed to fail from the getgo. But, according to a report by the center for Public Integrity, the most important reason for the failure was soy bean had no room in the food culture of the afghan people. Afghans dont like soy beans and very important to us, very important to us, is under utilization, is the acceptability, is the food tasty . In this line, americans took various measures to make soy been acceptable for Afghan Society. Soybean was used to produce bread for the people in afghanistan under the brand strong bread and widespread advertisement was made to find a place for soy bean in the peoples nutrition. در مورد سویا چی میفهم چیزی نمیفاهم غذاای پرووتینی است. Especially for us institutions was not a daunting task, then why didnt they choose a replacement for the soy bean . Soy bean had no background in afghanistan, neither its production nor its consumption, under such circumstances, it was natural that this question might rise, what happened . To the 34 million. This is a question that the asa has to answer. The soybeam project without achieving any good results kept afghanistan among three most food andsecure countries in the world. In the end, us food project failed with a superficial answer to major question. The afghans dont grow soy, they have no market for soy, they dont eat soy, they dont like soy. So what a great idea, lets create a program for the afghans, so the fields to grow to soir up here, theres no milling process, its down here, there are no roads connecting, what do you think happens after two years, 36 Million Dollars go out of the room, its wasted, the reconstruction projects were not limited to food programs in afghanistan, expanding electricity grid was among the Main Reconstruction goals. کابل مردم از برق شکایت دارن و پارک های صنعتی شکایت داره همکارهای ما گفتن و اداره in 2013, 30 of the people in afghanistan had electricity, in 2020, only 35 of the people enjoyed electricity in a standard way. This is while afghanistan has sufficient oil and gas to fuel power plants and also has vast rivers for construction of dams and generation of electricity. The most serious problem of lack of electricity in the country was attributed to Power Outages in cobble, the afghan capital. This is while two us companies, namely black and v with vandike as a ceo and lee berger, headed by larry walker were task with supplying cobble with electricity. Thank you, both. Besides the two companies. There was another Renowned Company simbion power, whose ceo is paul hinks, now simbion power joined the two former companies as a contractor, the three companies signed a contract in 2006 to reconstruct a gas fired power plant, but Political Developments knocked the project off course. The 2009 president ial election was approaching and the people were suffering from insufficient power supply. Under such circumstances, it was only natural that Power Outages in coble would turn into a political issue, issue that western powers of then president karsai knew how sensitive it was. The campaign had just started to relact karzay and people were looking into what karzay has done and that question became very loud in many peoples minds that they havent been able to bring power. The government that they had brought to afghanistan could not even provide coble with sufficient electricity, so karsais political campaign, with a then Us Ambassador to afghanistan, ronald newman, at the center stage, decided that the power plant should be established before the 2009 election, no matter what. We were going to have a president ial election, so there was issue of politics, but there was also issue of whether power was uh was needed, which it was and could be done uh in in a feasible way. Well, in 2007, a plot of land an area called tarachel near kabul was earmarked for construction of the power plant. Carl ikenberry was Us Ambassador to afghanistan between 2009 and 2011. He was somehow the successor to former envoy ronald newmans project, so in a tight and unrealistic schedule, power plant which was supposed to be fueled by gas immediately changed. Into diesel fuel. Carl ikenberry knocked the project together in 2009. On august 5th, 2009, hi and karza inaugurated the coble power plant with the minimum capacity for generation of electricity. He and karsai inaugurated the coble power plant with the minimum capacity for generation of electricity. It was exactly 15 days before the president ial election, which was held on august 20th. Considering this, it was noteworthy schedule, two weeks before the election, so people would exactly remember who cares about their electricity. The project kickstarted with an estimated 100 million fund, but it was completed in 2010, with over 300 million spent, and this was done in december of 2010 against backdrop of aids having complained vecifferously number of times about your performance under the 2007. Contract to provide power to cable that uh, the contract originally was projected to cost 100 million, it balloond to 300 million, there were also overruns in terms of time. Eventually, carl iconberry completed and handed over the power plant and cobble to the Afghan Government in 2014 in a splendid takeover ceremony. But the power plant was handed. Over to the Afghan Government in a situation that instead of using afghan gas reserves, imported diesel was used to feed the plant. Under those circumstances, in 2010, the cost of diesel was so high that imposing electricity from neighboring countries will cost much less for afghanistan. We are not using it because we have enough power. In the end, until 2020, the power plant failed to completely supply cobble with electricity due to the exorbitant costs of diesel, because it was working only at 1 of its capacity, the 300 million project was known as a White Elephant and cobble due to its unending problems, the power plant was also known as the most expensive power plant on the planet, the politics of electricity, supply and cobble created the best atmosphere for three power Plant Construction companies. They needed to provide a justification for the power plant which was supposed to generate electricity with gas, but turned into a diesel power plant, and afterwards it went almost bankrupt, but they admitted that the power Plant Project completely failed. Mr. Hanks, um, you, you uh, you were signed up. Is a subcontractor on the uh the famous cobble power plant, yes . Yes sir, um, now that came in at about 300 Million Dollars, is that what it should have cost . Not in my opinion, sir, it is obvious that they could not admit that the power plant turned into a diesel run power plant because of the 2009 president ial race, so the best option was to blame someone else for the failure of the project or say they could not review some realities due to security issues. In afghanistan, simbion was engaged as a subcontractor by louis berger and black amch for the construction of a 100 megawatt power plant, power plant you all know lot about. The subcontract wound up in a dispute and is now in arbitration proceedings. Unfortunately, because of a confidentiality order which i opposed, i am prohibited from discussing details that relate to the dispute. Larry walker, the ceo. Of louis burger was already notorious for many other failed projects in the past. Road construction was among louis burgers most outstanding incomplete projects in afghanistan. The New York Times described that louis burger projects in afghanistan failed from the getgo parts of the highway that you have already constructed um is deteriorating and if so um is your firm paying for the repairs to that stretch of road or is usaid and the taxpair picking up the tab uh first i would absolutely disagree with that reporters assessment uh the reporter was referring to uh one particular crack that was on the road. The challenge of bad roads, or totally lack of them, had caused other problems in other parts of afghanistan. In 2008, the usa devised a megascale Road Construction plan across afghanistan, but the outcome did not even fulfill 10 of the objectives of the initial plan. That they started doing in 20082009, the usaid and the state department invested 400 million in a project that was supposed to build 1200 miles of roads across the country. Cut to three years later, theyve built a hundred miles of road and they spent more than 200 million, more than half of the money. Wow, besides lack of roads in the country where most of the people live in rural areas, shortage of hospitals in afghanistan is one of the most important challenges. Furthermore, lack of medical equipment. Is among major crises the hospitals in afghanistan face. Just like many hospitals that dont have the necessary equipment, many schools do not have the necessary infrastructure and do not have teachers. The us said it was going to reconstruct afghanistan and restore security to the country, but after two decades, wherever you look in the country, you only see death and destruction. Many us officials have taken the lid off the widespread corruption under the guise of reconstruction projects. Follow the details in this documentary. Vegetarianism was introduced as a Healthy Lifestyle and later on it became fancy too, some say it can save the planet as well. 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