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Stephen Kinzer: “The money was not used to any effect; much of it was looted…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

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… to go to Dubai to be put into the bank accounts of the corrupt warlords to whom we were sending all this money are really overwhelming. It's not just that The money was not used to any effect; much of it was looted and stolen. This was being known to our special inspector general. He was publishing reports of about this. And I remember meeting him once and telling him, wow, you're way off the reservation. (59:00–59:04)

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Asserts that funds intended for Afghanistan were largely ineffective and subject to theft.

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