Such accountability is not limited to the individual soldier who loses something but extends to his or her leader, who is considered responsible for everything the platoon does or fails to do.
Now consider Afghanistan where an absolute lack of accountability is on embarrassing display to the world.
Receiving less attention than this disaster, but also revealing an utter lack of senior leader accountability, is our surrendering a modern weapons arsenal to the Taliban.
"There is a yawning disconnect between the accountability that we enforce on those occupying the lower rungs of society, while our ruling class continues to show a remarkable ability to 'fail up'".
In this breathtaking lack of accountability, our Afghanistan mission mirrors the society from which it emerged.
There is a yawning disconnect between the accountability that we enforce on those occupying the lower rungs of society, while our ruling class continues to show a remarkable ability to "Fail up".
Unless Congress demands accountability for 20 years of failure in Afghanistan - failure that has both civilian and military, Republican and Democratic, fingerprints on it, we should expect a more dignified version of Ghani's heist: Those who crafted policies that produced a negative return on 20 years of painful investment, and then armed our enemy while leaving behind helpless allies, will retire to sinecures on corporate boards while continuing to hold forth as foreign affairs "Experts" on cable TV. How can this not further degrade the public's faith in our institutions, a faith that has already been seriously eroded?
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/afghanistan-breathtaking-lack-official-accountability
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