From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 06:55:05 MST
Ramez Naam said:
>I would support a US invasion of Iraq if I thought the US was
>committed to sticking around in that country for the decades necessary
>to build a working, healthy democracy. The Bush Administration has
>held Afghanistan up as an example of their commitment to rebuild after
>a war. Those who've followed the news know the the US has actually
>done incredibly little to help rebuild Afghanistan, making this
>example a source of doubt about US behavior in post-war Iraq. Now
>comes even more evidence: Bush's proposed budget to congress for 2004
>contains 0 dollars in spending to help rebuild Afghanistan.
This is a legitimate concern. If a war is necessary, we will need to
reconstruct Iraq massively, but there seems to be no program for doing this.
We seem to have dropped the ball in Afghanistan, where was certainly
necessary to get rid of the Taliban.
This is *one* area where we need some hardnosed policy debate (one of many).
I wish the peace marchers would devote their energies to this sort of issue.
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