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Afghanistan is a very corrupt place. During the first conversation I ever had with a high-ish ranking man in the Afghan National Army, he asked me if I'd be wi
by ARandomerDude 5y ago
Afghanistan is a very corrupt place. During the first conversation I ever had with a high-ish ranking man in the Afghan National Army, he asked me if I'd be willing to smuggle American goods off our forward operating base for him to sell on the black market. I was shocked that he would have the nerve to ask, and that he wouldn't blush to do so in an introductory conversation.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoA good article about it from 2015, and how the corruption helps the insurgency (e.g. the locals would be thinking "Why should I warn the corrupt idiots about that IED targetting their shiny black SUVs?"): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-revolt https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... It's a book review of "Thieves of State", which is also a good read. Hah I just scrolled through that article again, and it ends with: In September [2014], the former World Bank official and good-governance expert Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as the new President of Afghanistan, amid widespread allegations of vote-tampering. He has promised to tackle corruption.