"Playing with fire"

De Borchgrave:

"... Clearly, a number of U.S. contractors are milking -- and jeopardizing -- the entire Afghan army effort. A recent investigation showed these "entrepreneurs" charging copying paper at 20 U.S. cents a sheet and little altar bells for U.S. trainers attending Catholic mass at $500 per bell. This was the kind of ripoff that persuaded Congress in 1975 to cut off military assistance to the South Vietnamese army. A few hours later, the South Vietnamese army, which had fought well without U.S. advisers for two years, decided the United States had betrayed them -- and resistance quickly collapsed."