By Catherine A. Traywick
Foreign Policy - Tuesday, December 3, 2013
After 12 years, nearly $700 billion, and more than 2,000 dead U.S. soldiers,
here's what the United States has to show for its efforts in
Afghanistan: a government that's perceived to be as corrupt as North
Korea, according to a new report from the anti-corruption group
Transparency International. File it away under things U.S. officials
would probably rather ignore.
The Corruptions Perception Index
culls expert opinions from groups like the World Bank, Freedom House,
and the Economist Intelligence Unit on public sector corruption in 177
countries. Afghanistan has lingered near the bottom of the list for
years, but since 2012 has shared last place with perennial losers North
Korea and Somalia, countries where "corruption perceptions ... indicate a
near-total absence of an honest and functioning public sector,"
according to Transparency International.
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