Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza  Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height By Nick Turse  September 4, 2012   TomDispatch.com Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever.  More

Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza  Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height By Nick Turse  September 4, 2012   TomDispatch.com Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever.  More