I'm Melting, Melting...Oh, What A World

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/an-af...-watchdog/

An Afghan training base that melted in the rain? US wasted billions on botched projects: watchdog

The United States wasted nearly $500,000 on an Afghan police training center that began to fall apart only months after it was built due to shoddy contractor work, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.

The center’s adobe-style brick buildings were supposed to replicate an Afghan village to allow the country’s special police to practice search operations but the roof and walls began “melting” away in the rain four months after it was completed, said the report by John Sopko, Washington’s special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR).

[Nope]

The military has been contracting out jobs that it used to do for a long time. Contracts go to lowest bid not best company so this doesn't surprise me

[Minimalist]

It apparently surprised the shit out of the Inspector General.

[abaris]

It apparently surprised the shit out of the Inspector General.

Shouldn't have, since that's the unchained capitalist way in a nutshell. Provide the shoddiest, cheapest service you can get away with, since you're the only game in town.