This is a scathing critique and expose of how U.S. taxpayers are unwittingly funding the Taliban in the Afghanistan war! With the ambiguous intention of winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan, the U.S. government has mismanaged billions of development dollars, bolstered the drug trade, and dumped extraordinary sums of cash into the hands of the Taliban. That is the sobering message of this scathing critique of America's efforts in Afghanistan by award-winning journalist Doug Wissing. Wissing's vivid narrative takes readers down to ground level in frontline Afghanistan - drawing on the voices of hundreds of combat soldiers, ordinary Afghans, private contractors, aid workers, and government officials - to explore how and why U.S. taxpayers have been unwittingly funding both sides of the disastrous war in Afghanistan.
