Word: postconflict
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...expected to be open by early next year. "It's not like investing in Austria or the United Arab Emirates where things are pretty straightforward," says Mohammad Rafi Fazil, economics officer for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Afghanistan. "Given that we are only just emerging from a postconflict situation, things are very complicated. But the possibilities are endless if you are able to adapt...
...fact, by September 2002, the White House had its own exercise under way. In August of that year, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had held contentious hearings on Iraq, focusing on the apparent lack of any postconflict preparation. Just after Labor Day, Rice summoned her top staff to an evening meeting and set up four working groups to try to coordinate inter-agency squabbling. State, as usual, was trying to find a multilateral approach to Iraq and to boost the status of opponents to the regime inside Iraq. The Defense Department was happy to go it alone and rely...
...country's infrastructure--that continue to plague the nation-building effort. "The war plan was there in spades," says Ron Adams, who served as deputy to Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general who briefly preceded Bremer as the U.S. governor in Iraq. "But we didn't see much postconflict stuff in writing until we got into Kuwait" on March 17, two days before the war began. Adams says that as far back as January, when Garner first convened his staff, a sense of foreboding hung over the enterprise. "Right from the beginning, we said, 'Holy mackerel, we don't have...
Almost certainly, securing U.N. support for a war would reduce the cost to the U.S. of rebuilding Iraq. A senior British official says that if the U.N. backs a war, it would be fairly easy to imagine a postconflict administration in Iraq under U.N. auspices--even if the U.N. had to work with an American military proconsul. Inevitably, the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies will establish an early presence in Iraq to ameliorate short-term hardship. But the U.S., says U.N. Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, has not yet asked the U.N. to prepare for a role in longer-term reconstruction...
...play. First, Blair sincerely believes, as he told British diplomats earlier this month, that it is simply wrong for rich nations to expect the U.S. to do all the dirty work in the world. Such a policy is not just indulgent; it risks sacrificing any chance of influencing postconflict arrangements. Second, and perhaps most important of all, Blair has been motivated since he was a student by a deeply held set of moral - indeed religious - beliefs that good should triumph over evil and that the forces of righteousness have an obligation to do what they can to improve the world...