How intensely disappointing to find some fiscal conservative aparently whining about the money needed to rebuild Iraq. Don’t they understand what is at stake here? A successful outcome in that poor country is vital for the strategic success of the war on terror and terror-states. Penny-pinching in that context is about as counter-productive and self-defeating a policy as can be imagined. You want to ensure costly military spending for decades in the Middle East? Then short-change the Marshall Plan in Iraq. Between some Democratic candidates’ neo-isolationism and the Republicans’ waking up to fiscal discipline on the one project the world desperately needs, it’s hard not to get truly depressed these days. Of course, this money should be scrutinized. But if the Republicans won’t back the president up on this, who will?
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