Summary
"The white elephant" is a phrase being used by government and military officials to refer to a U.S. taxpayer-funded, $300 million diesel power plant being completed in Kabul, Afghanistan.
In a panel hearing on Jan. 24 by the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields explained "diesel is hard to find" and "there is an issue of the capability of the government to find the very fuel that is necessary to support these generators." Fields concluded in written testimony: "It is not clear how Afghanistan is going to be able to provide the operations and maintenance required to sustain any of these investments without continuing financial support from the United States."See the full content of this document
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No White Elephants
Commissioner Charles Tiefer pointed out tha...
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