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War auditor compares Afghan policy to ‘lobotomy’

By Paul Bedard
Published February 18, 2020 2:19pm ET
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War auditor compares Afghan policy to ‘lobotomy’
Afghan laborers work on a bridge project funded by the government, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Rebuilding war-ravaged Afghanistan has cost thousands of lives according to a new report from the U.S. government watchdog that monitors the billions of U.S. dollars spent reconstructing Afghanistan.

The long-serving auditor of the U.S. war in Afghanistan said that administration after administration has swapped out top officials so often that it amounts to an “annual lobotomy” of institutional knowledge.

“If we cannot end the annual lobotomy, we should at least mitigate its impact,” said John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.

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