Douglas A. Wissing - Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban

Published 2012 by Prometheus Books

Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban. Copyright 2012 by Douglas A. Wissing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wissing, Douglas A.

Funding the enemy : how US taxpayers bankroll the Taliban / by Douglas A. Wissing.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61614-603-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-61614-604-7 (ebook)

1. TalibanFinance. 2. Postwar reconstructionAfghanistan. 3. Economic assistance, AmericanAfghanistan. 4. Economic developmentFinanceAfghanistan. 5. United StatesForeign relationsAfghanistan. 6. AfghanistanForeign relationsUnited States. I. Title.

DS371.4.W57 2012
958.10471dc23

2011045844

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

Here right and wrong are reversed: so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil: the plough not worthy of any honour, our lands neglected, robbed of farmers, and the curved pruning-hooks beaten into solid blades. Here Germany, there Euphrates wages war: neighbouring cities take up arms, breaking the laws that bound them: impious Mars rages through the world: just as when the chariots stream from the starting gates, add to their speed each lap, and the charioteer tugging vainly at the bridles, is dragged on by the horses, the chariot not responding to the reins.

Virgil, Georgics, Book 1