Word: reconstructionism
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"You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair." RAY NAGIN, New Orleans Mayor, when asked about his city's stop-and-go post-Katrina reconstruction efforts
(2 of 3) ISAF's mission is demanding, and getting more so. In late July it took control of the south, a historically neglected region where the Taliban is particularly strong, and it will be in charge of the whole country by the end of the year. "The insurgents are...
"You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair." --RAY NAGIN, New Orleans mayor, when asked on 60 Minutes about his city's stop-and-go post-Katrina reconstruction efforts
The scale of Lebanon's destruction has provided opportunities as well as heartbreak. According to the Lebanese government, the war not only has killed 1,183 people, wounded 4,055 and displaced 974,184 but has also caused $3.6 billion in damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure like bridges...
In addition to strengthening Hizballah, the race to rebuild Lebanon has exacerbated conflicts that are tearing the region apart--between the U.S. and the Arab street, between fundamentalists and the West, between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Hizballah's principal sponsor, Iran, has moved quickly to take advantage of the...