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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (52311)10/16/2002 1:54:29 PM
From: jcky  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
This is where I'm most scared this admin would fumble the ball. I simply can't understand why they haven't devoted more time and energy and resources to making the new Afghan polity work, for example, and that doesn't bode well for Iraq. They might try to pass it off to the UN or some others, in order to avoid the headaches of doing it themselves.

I am scratching my head trying to contemplate what this administration hopes to accomplish by ignoring the nation-building process in Afghanistan. If anything, a successful transition of law and order in Afghanistan will pay huge dividends for Bush's policy of regime change in Iraq and build the political capital necessary to convince the UN in supporting a multi-lateral effort to reconstruct Iraq, post-Saddam.

Is this administration brazenly committed to an unilateral invasion of Iraq and letting the UN sweep up the mess afterwards with respect to nation-building efforts? The geopolitical value of Iraq, namely, its known oil reserves and its proximity to hotbeds of Islamic fundamentalist activities, would suggest some form of American military presence post-Saddam even if the primary objective is not related to reconstruction or nation-building. And why would the UN be duped into nation-building chores knowing our previous track record?
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