Dave Mitchell

the Afghan client state was staggeringly corrupt.

And it's no surprise that some of that blew back and rubbed off on our own people who were the ones pumping all the money into there.

And one small part of it, which ends up being important for the culture of the Green Berets, is the theft of cash.

I was going to point to a study done that showed, or not a study so much as a count, of all the cases that had been adjudicated, and they total $52 million in thefts that U.S.

soldiers were convicted of stealing.

But that's just a drop, just a tiny drop.

A final fact I can tell you about this is that the largest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve was, I think, 343 tons of cash.

That's how much it weighed.

$100 bills.

They were put on planes and flown into Iraq.

And all of it went missing.

Billions of dollars.

Whole pallets of shrink-wrapped cash went missing.

Say the number again of tons.

Here's what I know is accurate.

It was the largest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve.

And you wonder where it all went, all these shadowy fortunes that were made out of the war.

And a lot of people that make a bunch of money and decamp for Dubai and never come back, well, they came up through the Special Forces or JSOC or the CIA.