WASHINGTON: The United States spent $290 million every day for 7,300 days on its war efforts and nation-building projects in Afghanistan, says a report compiled by Brown University.
That’s how the United States ended up spending more than $2 trillion in the last 20 years in Afghanistan, the report by the university’s Costs of War project added.
The report – highlighted by several major US media outlets — points out that the money helped “create a tiny class of young, ultra-rich Afghans,” many of whom started as interpreters for the US army and became millionaires.
The “contracts helped fuel a system of mass corruption that engulfed the country and, eventua
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