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September 25, 2003
Iraq: Further thoughts on short sighted cheapness
I found the articles reporting that Democrats and Republican rumps are pushing to make Iraq reconstruction money as loans, to get payback from the Iraqis for liberation, to be stupefying.
It strikes me as an extraordinary case of believing one's own propaganda to the point of being willfully blind. Very clearly forcing a heavily indebted Iraq deeper in debt is not truly sustainable - and will only feed a backlash on both a global and Iraqi level. It smells and looks effectively like war reparations. It's an extraordinarily cheap-skate, short termist view of the situation, a level of idiocy that is hard to overstate.
However, I long suspected the US lacked the political vision and will to pull this off. I am ever more convinced that this is heading towards disaster, although I very much hope not.
Posted by The Lounsbury at September 25, 2003 01:47 PM
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