Most interesting post, Nadine. Durkin said: "Asked, many times over many days, what, if anything, could be done to salvage the deteriorating situation, they'd insist: things would never improve unless the Americans
supplied jobs,
fought crime,
restored the schools,
guarded the banks,
built homes
and sewage systems,
even mediated family quarrels....
and also left Iraq immediately."
And isn't that just the dilemma?
I wonder in the future, we will find that the planning individuals actually believed the Iraqis would be much better able and incentivised, to pick up the ball and help run with it for the sake of their country and their children, grandchildren, etc? Our planners in the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA must have REALLY not realized how dependent and subservient the Iraqi citizens really were.
It might well be worth thinking about if we decide to help another country again. |
