The US is funding both sides of the Afghan war

An ABC News report says the United States military is helping fund both sides of the war in Afghanistan by knowingly financing a mafia-like collection of warlords and some of the very insurgents American troops are battling.

The military has turned to private trucking companies to transport the vast majority of materials it needs to fight the war -- everything from bullets to Gatorade, gas to sandbags -- and in turn, the companies are using American money to pay, among others, the Taliban to try to guarantee the trucks' safe passage, the reports charge.

The United States military knew it was helping fund the people it was fighting but did nothing about it, choosing to satisfy short-term delivery requirements and ignore fears that payments to the enemy help perpetuate Afghanistan's long-term security problems.

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