“Instead, contracts were awarded to American consultancies like Bearing Point, or Adam Smith from the UK, to bring in their own people to run ministries and government departments. The Afghans themselves had little say. ‘The quality of internationals was extremely… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
“Instead, contracts were awarded to American consultancies like Bearing Point, or Adam Smith from the UK, to bring in their own people to run… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
“At a dinner party in north London, I listened to friends bragging about buying Porsches with their bonuses and sending out from their offices… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
“One only had to go to Kabul airport to see a classic example of the aid community helping itself rather than Afghans. The scariest… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
“By 1986 the CIA was spending 70 per cent of its entire operations budget funding a Muslim jihad to kill Russians. The whole campaign… — Christina Lamb Copy Share Image
