The fighting was actually a bit but it did of again around 2005, 2006. We are really talking 11 years of intense conflict against the taliban insurgency. Ups and downs. There have been a lot of difficulties getting the Afghan Defense forces in shape. The United States has sent militaryof dollars on aid, military troops being there, as well as aiding the government to simply support itself over these many years. The taliban are still hanging in acrossnd causing mayhem the country. Now we have this new policy, what with a new president and new generals, trying to ramp things up in a way that has not been done in a while. We do not know how things will go. Haul. Will be a long it will be a tough battle. I do not think any american official, here or in washington, thinks otherwise. It is not an easy fight, and it is not over. Host how many u. S. Troops are in afghanistan at this point . What are their current roles . What will be the biggest single challenge moving forward . I would not sa
Milo agency with the tobacco sounding acronym was great in 2008. Basically congress realized that were spending a lot of money there. We didnt do a very good job of overseeing how the moneyon was spent in iraq so they created a special agency. We are an Inspector General office. We do audits, criminal investigations. About 200 of a. We we only focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. One of the Reasons Congress did this is because weve spent more money on reconstruction in afghanistan than weve ever done anywhere in the world. We spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire Marshall Plan to rebuild europe after world war ii. So congress assumed anything correctly that they needed a special agency just to look at it and weve been in existence since then time you put a regular reports, how often does the seeker office put out these reports to congress tressa we put our Quarterly Reports, unlike the other Inspector General who put up some annual prep we our Q
Facebook, and twitter, and we sit down with john sopko, the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction to talk about the latest report. Host good morning on this monday, november 27. Congress is back for what is expected to be at least three weeks of work. Some are calling it a year and yearend sprint of work. President will be meeting with congressional leaders early this week to talk about all of it. At the same time, plenty of news from overseas, including one headline that says victory or failure in afghanistan . 2018 will be the deciding year. That is our focus for the full washington journal. Should the u. S. Stay or leave afghanistan . If you think the u. S. Should stay, call 202 7488000. If you think they should leave, 202 7488001. We have a separate line for afghanistan veterans. We look forward to hearing your opinion. Your number is 202 7488002. If not by phone, weigh in on social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. Also post a comment on our facebook page, f
Sounding acronym was created in 2008 in basically congress realized we were spending a lot of money there. We didnt do a very good job of overseeing how the money was spent in iraq and created a special agency with Inspector Generals office. We do audits and criminal investigations. 200 of us. We focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. One of the Reasons Congress did this is because we have spent more money on reconstruction ine afghanistan than we have ever done anywhere in the world. We have spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire Marshall Plan to rebuild europe after world war ii. Assumed anything correctly they needed a special agency just to look at it and we have been the existence of them. Ruth. Host you put in regular reports. How long has this cigar office put out these reports . We put out quarterly reports unlike other Inspector Generals. We issue Lessons Learned reports on a regular basis and the issue audits investigations in inspection
[inaudible conversations] lets get started and i will have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan we have been doing a series of events over the last year we recently hosted a couple of weeks ago we could not have done this about the of partnership and as a friend thinks for everything. We will have been interesting and conversation today when i think about people who were qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cannot think of the of better person turning afghanistan around that usa id. To serve some of the toughest places in the world a patriot and a friend a qualified individual they got he raised his hand to do public service. [applause] it is very nice to see my old friends here in the audience is a particular that has been done in afghanistan for those of you that i have not met and i would like to say some words about the south asia strategy with the very few point on how that applies to usaid role and i will mention in pakistan and then