MARSHALL AGAIN

A blogger points out that in post-war Europe the U.S. never spent more than 5 percent of the GNP of the recipient country. The impact of money up to 50 percent of a country’s GNP is unprecedented. Surely it will have a huge impact. Obviously, money isn’t enough – cultural, social and ethnic factors may well be more critical in determining Iraq’s possible emergence into the civilized democratic world. But no one can claim the Bush administration isn’t committing enough resources.