Wednesday, December 10, 2003
I'm pretty appalled by the Bush team's decision to exclude certain countries from contracts related to the reconstruction of Iraq. Don't get me wrong - I am the first person to think that France needs to face consequences for its disgusting obstructionism last winter and its cynical policy toward Iraq. But applying this to other countries is just self-defeating. Germany is offering significant help in Afghanistan and has offered to train Iraqi police. Canada has worked on our behalf in Afghanistan.
One is left to conclude either that the Bush team has no real sense of priorities and would rather punish countries for how they behaved before and during the war than enlist them in vital postwar projects . . . OR that this entire enterprise was about postwar contracts to begin with. I'm inclined toward the former explanation, but it's getting hard to fault people who think the latter
One is left to conclude either that the Bush team has no real sense of priorities and would rather punish countries for how they behaved before and during the war than enlist them in vital postwar projects . . . OR that this entire enterprise was about postwar contracts to begin with. I'm inclined toward the former explanation, but it's getting hard to fault people who think the latter
