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a proof of concept gas station in afghanistan. it was a gas station that did not work as a gas station. it also proved no concept other than the concept that it is possible to spend $43 million building a single gas station that then does not work. it has been ten years of this kind of brutally blunt documentation from john sopko in this important inspector general post. but now as u.s. forces have left and then gone back to deal with the evacuation and as we are living day by day and hour by houry through the chaos of the evacuation or lack thereof. sopko has just released his report on how the first 20 years offi our war went overall, broay speaking. i have to tell you, it is not a cynical document. it is not a defeatist document. but it is also as unblinking as you might expect from him given

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