{"id":56603,"date":"2023-07-11T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/11\/us-aid-policies-undermined-success-of-afghanistan-mission-says-watchdog-chief"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:11:05","slug":"us-aid-policies-undermined-success-of-afghanistan-mission-says-watchdog-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56603","title":{"rendered":"US aid policies undermined success of Afghanistan mission, says watchdog chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor oversight, lack of understanding and weak collaboration between allies contributed to ease of Taliban takeover, conclude US and UK aid bodies at London conference<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s huge, badly-coordinated and politically-driven aid programme in Afghanistan engendered the corruption that undermined its entire mission and turned Afghans away from the western coalition, according to the head of a US aid watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not really understand Afghanistan or how it worked as a country,\u201d John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (Sigar), told a conference at the defence and security thinktank the Royal United Services Institute.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/11\/us-aid-policies-undermined-success-of-afghanistan-mission-says-watchdog-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor oversight, lack of understanding and weak collaboration between allies contributed to ease of Taliban takeover, conclude US and UK aid bodies at London conferenceAmerica\u2019s huge, badly-coordinated and politically-driven aid programme in Afghanistan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,59,79,61,2454,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-global-development","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-defence-spending","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56631,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56603\/revisions\/56631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}