Tuesday, July 01, 2003

Here's an Idea: Let's let the UN administer post-war Iraq. It could be just like Afghanistan!
"The world had promised us so much and yet . . ." [an Afghani policeman] said, trailing off, as a black Land Cruiser blew by. "N.G.O.," he said, as if it were a dirty word. He complained that millions of dollars in aid money had gone to nongovernmental organizations and United Nations agencies that spent it on fancy cars and fancy offices, a belief that I found was common in Kabul. "What have they done for us?" he said. "I have yet to see them put two bricks together."
Of course not. They don't do any actual work until you have completed the required 30 credits in post-colonial studies, at which point you will be able to accurately pinpoint America as the source of all your problems. Once you're there, who needs rebuilding? It's pointless in a world where the U.S. is the unilateral hegemon terrorist hyperpower.

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