For 12 years, John Sopko has been leading a lonely effort to bring accountability to the Afghan reconstruction effort as Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.
Unfortunately, “accountability” and “government effort” are like oil and water–they never mix.
As his job winds down, he is putting together his final report–the last of literally hundreds released over the years. Throughout that he time his reports detailed failures and even lies told by high-level officials, NGOs, and even generals to Congress and the American people. As important as those reports are, it must be frustrating to have been a Cassandra whose fate it was to foretell the truth and be ignored.
This passage by Special Inspector General John Sopko applies to far more than the U.S. experience in Afghanistanhttps://t.co/xfij9oRFzx pic.twitter.com/miPHvfa5bV
— Nick…
