Word: rebuildingã
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Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding??of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
...Staff is naive to suggest that this Administration can be trusted to follow international advice—a U.S. organized “rebuilding?? of Iraq would be a further demonstration of the Bush Administration’s dangerous unilateral streak in foreign policy. American credibility has been damaged enough by the war. The Staff is right that the U.S.—and not Iraqi citizens—must pay for the rebuilding since the U.S. started the war and destroyed much of Iraq’s infrastructure. But that money must go to international?...
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