Reconciliation and Iraq: Faith-Based Advice for the Next President
Daniel Philpott Monday, 1 September 2008
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. presidents have been stymied most by the problem of building peace in war-torn societies following U.S. military operations. The problem has proved far more difficult than military victory itself. President Bill Clinton's worst foreign policy disaster, in Somalia, came not in forcefully securing the delivery of relief supplies, but in seeking to build state institutions afterwards. President George W. Bush's knottiest dilemmas have been securing order after military victories in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is unsurprising, then, that in late 2005, the Department of Defense elevated post conflict reconstruction to a "core mission," or that the State Department, the Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the United Nations have performed similar re-evaluations.
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