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From Danger Room:

U.S. Nonprofit Screws up Iraq Jobs Program, Now Working on Afghanistan Repeat

Earlier this year, the U.S. Agency for International Development pulled the plug on the Community Stabilization Program, a jobs and public works program for Iraq worth a whopping $644 million.

The program was supposed to keep young (read: fighting-age) men away from the insurgency by putting them to work or enrolling them in vocational programs. But while thousands of Iraqis were paid to pick up trash or paint T-walls, the program was also susceptible to fraud: In a March 2008 audit, the USAID inspector general in Baghdad expressed concern that millions of dollars may have been siphoned off by insurgents.

Which brings us to Afghanistan. International Relief and Development -- the Beltway bandit implementing partner that ran the Community Stabilization Program -- is now busy at work in Afghanistan, overseeing roadbuilding projects and agriculture programs.

Appearing Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace, IRD President and CEO Arthur Keys defended the Community Stabilization Program, saying the reason that the reason the program was so large -- at one point, it had a "burn rate" of around $1 million a day -- was that it was tackling such a big problem. (Other USAID partners declined to bid on the project because of concerns about its enormous scope and worries about accountability.) Keys even has a stockroom full of documents to prove how noble IRD's intentions were.

Can anyone say UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE?
Executive pay control?
Massive new money infusion?
183 F-22's to replace 751 F-15's?
Diversity over merit?
Equal outcome over equal opportunity?