Posted on 04/09/2007 5:52:20 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2007 Plans are under way to double the number of provincial reconstruction teams now operating in Iraq by the end of the year, a senior U.S. official said during a news conference in Iraq today.
We will both double the number of PRTs and we will double the number of individuals who are working in the PRTs, said Rick Olson, chief of the national coordination team in charge of provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq. |
We do projects and reconstruction, but thats not our primary purpose, Olson said of the PRTs activities in Iraq. We do primarily capacity building and institution building in the area of government, economics, rule of law, infrastructure and public diplomacy.
Reconstruction is fine and dandy AFTER YOU HAVE KILLED THE ENEMY!
This is like trying to reconstruct Berlin while Russians and Germans are fighting in it.
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