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Afghanistan - You Need a Viceroy, Right?
There isn't one person who was in charge of the effort in afghanistan, for the entire 20 years we were there. Of the 60 some billion dollars that the us. Was spending per year inAfghanistan, a huge chunk of that was fuel costs. While the amudaria oil field is sitting there, untapped, largely for the duration of our presence there. You could have redrilled the five wells that were cemented and another 15, and you could have powered the entire country. The soviet times the soviets did a better job of extracting resources in Afghanistan than the U.S. We never had one person that was in charge.