Opinion | The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/opinion/afghanistan-war-economy.html
Article de septembre 2021
The war in Afghanistan wasn’t a failure. It was a massive success — for those who made a fortune off it.
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“It’s a bugbear of mine that Afghan corruption is so frequently cited as an explanation (as well as an excuse) for Western failure in Afghanistan,” Jonathan Goodhand, a professor in Conflict and Development Studies at SOAS University of London, wrote me in an email. Americans “point the finger at Afghans, whilst ignoring their role in both fuelling and benefiting from the patronage pump.”