“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” No truer words were ever spoken.

The latest in a long line of screwing things up is the continuation of the farce we call Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy. Having abandoned the country to its fate, its women to 13th-century tyrants, and betrayed the men and women who fought and died there, Biden can’t stop the screw-up momentum.

JUST IN: Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Gets $80 Million Cash Infusion Every Two Weeks — Biden admin, international donors pumping cash into Afghanistan despite mounting evidence Taliban steals it https://t.co/xafHcDBAZy

— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) November 1, 2023

The news comes from a report by SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, whose job must be really hard because there is a more than 20-year history of failed efforts to turn Afghanistan back into a real country.

The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 [sic] evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.

While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.

So we’re sending over “aid” that is supposed to help the country recover from decades of war, and it unsurprisingly winds up in the pockets of warlords.

How does that help anybody except the Taliban? I suppose somebody else may get a cut, but you can rest assured that if anything gets to the people in need it ain’t much.

The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.

While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.

It’s good that we are relying on the UN to funnel money into Afghanistan. They are known to be above board.

It is a mess, although at least in Afghanistan Joe Biden didn’t so much create the crisis as simply took a bad situation and made it immeasurably worse. SIGAR reports out of Afghanistan have rarely brought any good news after all.

Now we can add “funding the Taliban” onto the large stack of bad moves the US has made there, and of course tip our hat to Obama, who has been proven right.