U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.

Nick Turse

Address African Agency Combat Concerns Confront Corrupt Despite Dollars Effectively Enable Failure Failures First Government Guinea Gulf Leaders Many Millions Piracy Place Taxpayer Tens Who

Related Quotes

the tens of millions of dollars.

— Bruce Babbitt

DollarsMillionsTens

On any given day, the government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars, but we simply have no visibility on these purchases. They just buy from the same person year after year.

— Christopher Yukins

DollarsGivenGovernment

The price-tag for all this is going to be enormous - tens of millions of dollars per year for at least a decade,

— Claude Gascon

DollarsEnormousMillions

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

— Nick Woodman

AboutDollarsJust

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.

ActiveAfricanBoots