Afghanistan mismanagement

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The US spent billions in Afghanistan, from training its military to building schools, roads and hospitals. Now that the Taliban has taken over the country, was it all wasted? The World’s Marco Werman speaks to the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, the man responsible for documenting where the money went.

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