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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (74408)	2/15/2003 11:17:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 281500

All the talk about "nation-building" was, it's clear now, just PR, at least as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Once the "regime-change" is done, we're outta there, on to the next one down the AxisOfEvil list. Bush was never much of a fan of "nation-buidling", as he made clear while campaigning for President. Maybe they mean to do things differently in Iraq. Jacob, are you sure you aren't confusing the Bush administration's short attention span with the media's short attention span? We still have troops in Afghanistan, and I read somewhere (can't find it now) that we have pledged about $800 million towards rebuilding Afghanistan this year, which ain't peanuts. I know the President just announced a $5 million grant towards rebuilding a hospital in Kabul. It may not be enough, but between the NGO's squeaky-wheeling and the media's fixation on other subjects, I'm not sure where the truth lies here. Of course Afghanistan could use any amount of aid; the place was reduced to rubble over the last twenty years.

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