Word: reconstructionism
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On this day in February, a driving blizzard has made Karzai's lair seem even more forbidding. Only one person gets through unchallenged: Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. Inside Karzai's office, the two men converse in English and Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. Karzai...
Is it enough to get Afghanistan back on its feet? Marine General James Jones, the military chief of NATO, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January that while the insurgents pose little military threat to allied forces, the U.S. and its allies do not have enough troops in Afghanistan...
While they sound upbeat, the commanders are worried that one catastrophic event--like an attack on Karzai, who will be campaigning outside Kabul this spring--could shatter the current fragile peace. The U.S. military presence in Afghanistan remains the only guarantor that the country will not fall apart. "If we...
And they will be unable to restore the damage already done—in the last year the Iraqi countryside has begun to resemble a moonscape pockmarked by meteorites as looters have removed entire sections of valuable archaeological finds. In the wake of the U.S. invasion, civilian guards fled in...
It is time for the United States to move beyond its self-appointed role as global policeman and become a socially responsible world citizen. If the Bush administration continues to bulldoze through all obstacles in the name of global peace and security, there will be little left to rebuild out...