Word: reconstructionism
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SENATOR CHUCK HAGEL, referring to numbers showing that less than 6% of the money allocated by Congress last year for the reconstruction of Iraq has been spent
Sadly, a safe and peaceful Iraq seems an ever more distant dream. The Bush administration has been roundly criticized for its failures to plan adequately for reconstruction, and, in part due to those mistakes, stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq has proven to be a slow and exceedingly difficult process. A budding...
But go beyond the critique to Kerry's plan for fixing Iraq, and you find the following: "First, the president must secure international support. Second, we must commit to a serious effort to train Iraqi security forces. Third, we must carry out a reconstruction plan that brings benefits to the...
Already, the U.S. focus in Iraq has shifted to crisis-management - as the National Intelligence Estimate suggests, the best hope right now is maintaining something close to the present unstable, but not decisively so, equilibrium. In what respected strategic analyst Anthony Cordesman describes as an admission of policy failure, the...
In the long run, pacifying enough of the country to allow for a U.S. pullback will require not just an effective military strategy but also a political one. The U.S. has failed in 19 months to get significant reconstruction work off the ground. Lack of security is partly to blame...