I heard an interesting idea about how to “solve” the problem of our not having a way out of Iraq. The idea is that we could cancel all of the contracts to “repair” Iraq, effective maybe next March. Then we could let the contracts over again, but this time open it up to companies from any country. Then we could admit that we need help with managing the project, and ask for help from the international community.
It seems like this approach might work. It would take a bit of eating humble pie to get there, but once that was taken care of it might turn out to be a way to turn the whole mess into a win on all of our sides.
The main problem that I see with it is that we wouldn’t want to be the sole source of funding, and then have the money go to all sorts other countries. Seems like Iraq actually has enough money, in the form of oil, to pay for this work. Why not find a way to make that happen. We were promised that we would do that when this whole thing started, but that doesn’t seem to be happening. I think it would have to happen. We could just say that we can’t afford to foot the entire bill, and that the other countries have to help in significant ways, or Iraq will have to pay for its own reconstruction. Iraq isn’t a poor country, it is just a disorganized one.
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