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A former deputy to Jay Garner, the first, short-lived civilian administrator in Iraq, says he thought the plan was to employ most of the soldiers in reconstruction tasks after Saddam fell. But civilians at the Pentagon and in the office of the Vice President agreed with Ahmed Chalabi, leader...
Gienapp’s scholarship focused on the Civil War and Reconstruction. His books included his 1988 work, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856, as well as Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography, published in 2002.
Gienapp’s lecture rooms were regularly packed full of undergraduates, who clamored to get into such courses as Historical Study B-42, “The American Civil War, 1861-1865” and History 1644, “Reconstruction, 1865-1877.”
Still, the fact that the insurgency has sustained and even expanded itself over the six months since Baghdad has been in U.S. hands is cause for concern. The security problem imperils the reconstruction process, whether in the form of pipeline sabotage that stops Iraq exporting oil or in driving out...
President Bush prefers to see the latest wave of attacks as the actions of men made desperate by U.S. progress in Iraq. "The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react," the President said Monday. But it remains to be seen whether Iraqis - and Americans...