During its follow-up inspection of Camp Pamir in March 2012, SIGAR identified additional structural failures, improper grading, and new sink holes.
Kunduz ANA Garrison: Army Corps of Engineers Released DynCorp of All Contractual Obligations despite Poor Performance and Structural Failures, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
Perhaps the most troubling finding is that, despite DynCorp’s unsatisfactory performance, USACE released the contractor in December 2011 under a settlement that absolved DynCorp of responsibility for fixing the structural defects.
SIGAR Slams Army Corps for Letting DynCorp Walk Off the Job, POGO
The same defense and development contractors' names come up again and again on these reports and individual contracts get black marks for poor execution, but when its time to start passing out money again, they remain at the front of queue.
Shades of Iraq in Afghanistan? Problems with shoddy contracting work, Christian Science Monitor
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
Gen. Smedley Butler, War is a Racket
No one must be told
About this thieving in the night,
Satan stole the landscape,
It was lost with the morning light.
It's sundown in the sinkhole,
It's sunrise up on the hill.
The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm,
And they're keeping very still.
Throwing Muses, Sinkhole