“The Bush strategy on counternarcotics and Alternative Livelihoods, which consumed almost $3 billion from 2005 to 2008, ‘was the single most wasteful, most ineffective program that I had ever seen,’ [Special Representative to Afghanistan Richard] Holbrooke seethed to me [journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for a Washington Post article on June 19, 2009]… ‘It wasn’t just a waste of money. …This was actually a benefit to the enemy. We were recruiting Taliban with our tax dollars.’ ”
– Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America, Page 107