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Funding the enemy : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban /

Explores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wissing, Douglas A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Taliban > Finance.
Postwar reconstruction > Afghanistan.
Economic assistance, American > Afghanistan.
Economic development > Finance > Afghanistan.
United States > Foreign relations > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Foreign relations > United States.
Description
Summary:Explores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.
Item Description:Maps on endpapers.
Physical Description:396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781616146030 (cloth : alk. paper)
1616146036 (cloth : alk. paper)