432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 3 a.m.

b'The families of U.S. troops killed and wounded in Afghanistan are suing several companies that did reconstruction there. Why? These companies, they say, paid the Taliban protection money, which gave them the funding \\u2014 and opportunity \\u2014 to attack U.S. soldiers instead. A look at the messy, complicated, and heart-breaking tradeoffs of conflict-zone economies.'