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 Re: Nation Building Credentials
started 10/1/2003; 1:44:47 PM - last post 10/1/2003; 6:00:52 PM
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James Robertson - Re: Nation Building Credentials 
10/1/2003; 5:44:47 PM (reads: 913, responses: 1)
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Your reader - the one who says we have no credentials for nation building - should read his very own message. He brings up the post-WWII era, and doesn't seem to notice that - gosh gee golly - we rebuilt western Europe and Japan without UN help (it was being created at the time). There's also South Korea after the Korean war, which - although under a UN fig leaf - was a mostly US effort. Saying we (the US) have no nation building experience shows a distinct lack of historical knowledge. Claiming that the UN has such experience shows no knowledge of what's happening now. Bosnia-Hertzegovina and Kosovo are still under UN mandate, with no self rule. I'm always curious as to the silence on that issue, while there is constant clamoring to have the Iraqis rule themselves before they are ready for it. And France - when they stop shielding Radko Mladic from prosecution in their zone of occupation in Serbian Bosnia, let me know - and while you're at it, let me know why you trust them to do anything useful based on that action alone.
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w.a. gerrard - Re: Nation Building Credentials
10/1/2003; 10:00:52 PM (reads: 947, responses: 0)
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James is on target about U.S. nation building credentials. Most our complaining allies have a lot of nation destroying experience, though
I'm also pretty sure that the Bush administration believes the UN would build an Iraq that offers sanctuary to all sorts of nasty people, whether out of weakness or explicit connivance. These are people the U.S. wants to be sure aren't part of Iraq's future. Odds are, the administration will leave this an unspoken policy.
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