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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132781)5/13/2004 12:48:22 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Ah, so your answer to the "drain the swamp" conceptuality question is economic development. Which is fine in principle, but given the total botch of the post-war security situation, extremely problematic in practice. Then there's the somewhat unrelated issue that W's team seems to have primarily seen "ecomomic development" in the Iraqi arena as an opportunity for big contracting bondoggles for Halliburton and Bechtel types.

Economic development in undeveloped countries is difficult in the best of circumstances, at least under the current World Bank / IMF regime. In Iraq, the circumstances are far from the best.

On the other other hand, there's the historical disdain of conservatives for "social engineering", along with the more specific disdain of the neocon true believers for "Arab Minds", except that now the truest of true believers are supposed to somehow convince a skeptical population of "Arab Minds" that the true believer way is indeed the one true way. Good luck to them.
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