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December 7, 2005
Questions for Rumsfeld
A friend of mine had a chance to hear Secretary Rumsfeld speak, but never got a chance to ask any of questions. I tried to make interesting questions that chanaged the secretary, were hard to dodge, and were important without being hostile.
The Baghdad airport road was extremely hard to keep safe and clear. In the last few months a lot of progress has been made. The solution seemed to be using Iraqis to patrol and run check points. Are there other examples of this? What have we learned from this transition?
How many more Americans in our armed forces and intelligence establishment speak Arabic today then did on September 10th? What's been done to encourage the study of middle eastern and central Asian languages?
We've seen in France and Israel what frustrated and idle young men can do. Yet, Aljazeera reported a Baghdad University study saying that unemployment in Iraq was 70%, higher than the infamous suburbs of Paris or even that of Gaza. What macroeconomic strategies are being used to combat unemployment in Iraq? Have make-work civil infrastructure programs been considered?
Posted by OneEyedMan at December 7, 2005 9:02 AM
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