Unbelievably Stupid
Read this article in the NY Post about the failure of the United States to effectivly repair Iraqi Infrastructure. It isn’t that there aren’t skilled Americans who can do the work…It is that the morons running things there now insist for reasons of political correctness that Iraqi engineers be the ones to get things running again.
The article goes on to explain that the Iraqis don’t care who gets the power on as long as they can again have light when the sun goes down and power to run their fans in the summer heat.
People had electricity under Saddam. Now they have American excuses and feel good policies but no real effort to supply basic human comforts. That doesn’t bode well for our country’s prospects in Iraq.
The next to last paragraph is the kicker:
Third Infantry Division soldiers like Sgts. Perdue and Peters are due to be replaced by troops from the 1st Armored Division. They worked their butts off during the war and its aftermath, and they don’t want to see their labors go for nothing. Says Peters, “We did our job. Now it feels like we’re gonna leave hear feeling like we did it in vain.”
They did do their job in vain if we run the rebuilding of Iraq like we run every other government agency. I know…I see first hand how the federal government works every single day, and its not pretty.
(Link Courtesy Instapundit)
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