US Cannot Find Afghan Hospitals We Paid for

Almost two dozen hospitals that the US has funded in western Afghanistan, costing over a quarter of a billion dollars, are in locations that the United States Agency for International Development cannot pinpoint.

Being unable to locate the hospitals leaves them at risk of a deadly attack similar to the one that the US was responsible for on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.

Federal watchdogs with the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction at 23 of the 63 of the hospitals in the province of Herat, but only 12 were located within a kilometer of where USAID sent them.

Seven of the hospitals were more than five kilometers away from where they were sent.

Out of the remaining 40 sites, the watchdogs could only even confirm the existence of 19 of them.

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http://sputniknews.com/us/20151031/1029372187/USAID-cant-locate-afghan-hospitals.html

Considering the level of waste, fraud, and abuse of US funds for Afghanistan, I'm surprised they could find ANY of them.

Personally, I don't believe the myth that America doesn't intentionally bomb hospitals. For a more realistic perspective of what appears to be happening, read this essay:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/21/more-lies-from-the-new-york-times/

Update - Here is an even better explanation of how the US wages war by destroying hospitals and other civilian infrastructure:

In Viet Nam, being terribly ignorant like so many others, I “accidentally” discovered, against my greatest wishes, that the US was systematically targeting for destruction, schools, hospitals, churches, and inhabited, undefended villages, often by low-level napalm and 500 pound bombs. These were not accidental. US Army intelligence personnel admitted that hospitals had been routinely listed as targets: “The bigger the hospital the better it was”. Classified USAF bombing manuals defined hospitals, schools, and churches as ‘psycho-social targets’ useful for dissolution of civilian order and decimating morale. The US destroyed 13,000 of their 21,000 villages (North and South), murdering upwards of 6 million peasants in South and North Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos. The US also destroyed over 15,000 bridges; almost 3,000 high schools and universities; 350 hospitals; 1,500 maternity wards; and 950 churches and pagodas.

But, from our origins, the US political-military policy, rooted deeply in Eurocentric racism, has revealed an intention to kill civilians and noncombatants alike, and civilian infrastructure.

You can read the rest @
http://www.brianwillson.com/the-us-american-way-of-war-intentional-killing-of-civilians-and-civilian-infrastructure/