A key element of the PNAC’s plan for a “unipolar” world is the idea that nations can be fundamentally changed, through force, by other nations. If that premise doesn’t hold true, then most of the PNAC strategy would be deemed unreliable, since it relies heavily on the U.S.’s ability to achieve fundamental changes in many nations and regions around the globe.
America’s Rebuilding of Iraq is in Chaos, Say British
By Peter Foster
The Telegraph
Tuesday 17 June 2003
The American-led reconstruction effort in Iraq is “in chaos” and suffering from “a complete absence of strategic direction”, a very senior British official in Baghdad has told The Telegraph.
The comments paint a grim picture of American incompetence and mismanagement as the Coalition Provisional Authority struggles to run post-Saddam Iraq.
“This is the single most chaotic organisation I have ever worked for,” the official said yesterday.
The source revealed that Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq, had “fewer than 600″ staff under his control to run a country the size of France in which the civil infrastructure was on the point of collapse.
“The operation is chronically under-resourced and suffers from an almost complete absence of strategic direction,” he added.
Similar frustrations have been voiced privately in London, where British ministers are said to be fed up with being “taken for granted”.
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Paul Garrett
“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it” Those words hold true for teh inept and tragic effort to create an iraq in the American image. Had the Americans referred to the British experience in 1920, they might have aopted a different approach to Iraq. I refer you to the following link, a brief summation of the British diaster in Mesopotamia.
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Paul Garrett
Further to my earlier submission on the unfortuante paralells in the present US and past British experience In Iraq, please see the following link from The History Network:
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