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...field of international public health is a mess because of no funding,” Farmer says. “So of course people in this arena have set their sights low. Our own view was that we need to raise more money rather than lamenting the lack of it and setting standards lower for poor people...
...casual disdain for the nonmilitary aspects of federal governance. He has passed another tax cut, filled with trickery and guaranteed to run up huge deficits. And he has lost his way in Iraq, allowing the less dramatic but far more challenging postwar period to become a dangerous mess...
Wolfowitz added that complaints about the postwar mess reminded him of the fleeting wartime controversy over troop levels and strategy. He may be right. The situation in Iraq could improve. But there is a larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several...
...former governor, Bush has been rather insensitive to the states? and cities? needs, mostly because he believes they dug themselves into this mess. Administration officials argue that during the boom years of the ?90s, the governments expanded services to unsustainable levels. They?ve got a point- state and city Democrats and Republicans alike cut taxes and increased spending at the same time. Now it?s time for the hangover. Still, Bush shouldn?t be so cocky on this subject. He?s also cutting taxes and raising spending, but he gets to run a deficit - a luxury states and cities...
...Wolfowitz added that complaints about the postwar mess reminded him of the fleeting wartime controversy over troop levels and strategy. He may be right. The situation in Iraq could improve. But there is a larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several...