Taking Exception: Nation-Building Office Is No Solution

It is strategic overreach, not the lack of a nation-building office, that has sapped our diplomatic corps and military. But if Secretary Rice and Senator Lugar are unwilling to reconsider American interventionism, the office they propose is ill-suited to the task they set out for it. The gulf between the office’s proposed resources and its mission is enormous. Their proposal is akin to taping a band-aid across a severed limb.

CQ Politics:
Pelosi Says She Miscalculated GOP Determination on Iraq
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., admitted Thursday that she had underestimated the willingness of Republicans to stand behind President Bush’s Iraq policy despite the drubbing the GOP took in the polls in 2006. .. “The assumption I made was that the Republicans would soon see the light,” she said.

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