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...PPPs are by no means a panacea—not every infrastructure project is suited for collaboration between the private and public sectors and there are other proposed solutions, like increased tolling, congestion pricing, encouraging reduction of demand, or a national infrastructure fund to be bankrolled by ending the Iraq War (the favored plan of Obama)—it has already proven to be a useful option in solving a giant problem that receives an absurdly low degree of attention commensurate with how many people are affected every day. Although both presidential nominees made reference to the infrastructure crisis...
...Pentagon, after pushing for nearly a year for new rules governing the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, is already back-pedaling. On the one hand, the agreement between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi cabinet - which still requires a potentially contentious vote of approval by the Iraqi parliament - simply codifies a U.S. redeployment already in the making. But the agreement's hard deadline for the removal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011 represent a significant retreat for a Bush Administration that has long opposed setting a timetable for withdrawal. And it also poses a challenge...
After months of thorny back-and-forth negotiations, several revisions and much hand-wringing, the Iraqi Cabinet on Sunday finally approved the contentious Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which provides a legal basis for U.S. military operations to continue in Iraq after Dec. 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. But it's too early to pop the champagne. The bilateral U.S.-Iraqi security pact is by no means a done deal: it must still be ratified by a fractured parliament. The Cabinet vote had only one nay to 27 ayes, but nine Cabinet members chose to withdraw from the final...
...Maliki will address the nation on Monday in a bid to garner public support for the agreement. Washington can only sit back and watch as Iraq's exercise in democracy determines the fate of U.S. troops in the country...
...already made significant concessions on the wording of the final draft, which sets firm deadlines for a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. According to the current draft, U.S. troops will pull out of Iraqi cities by the end of next June and will fully withdraw from the country by the end of 2011, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said at a press conference. The dates "are final," he said, and "not subject to conditions on the ground." Washington has also yielded on the sensitive issue of immunity for U.S. troops. "There will be no immunity for anybody breaking...