POST-WAR PLANS
POST-WAR PLANS: WaPo has an interesting look at reconstruction planning. It appears that a handful of retired American generals are going to run Iraq for 90 days or so and then turn things over to an elected Iraqi government. This strikes me as a laudable plan, but rather infeasible. How one rebuilds the infrastructure of a country that has been ravaged by 20-odd years of war and 12 years of economic sanctions, creates a whole set of alien political institutions, recruits candidates, and runs a meaningful election in 90 days is beyond me. We shall see.
