対イラク武力行使

An Unkept Promise in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/opinion/17mon1.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fEditorials

Two years ago, the United States government promised to build more than
140 badly needed health clinics in Iraq, bringing basic care to underser
ved areas outside the big cities. That could have done a lot of good,
saving innocent Iraqi lives and building good will for the United States
in places where it has grown dangerously scarce. A generous cost-plus
contract was awarded to Parsons Inc., an American construction firm,
to do the work, supervised by the Army Corps of Engineers.
米政府は二年前イラクの医療事情を改善する為
140を越す診療所を作ると約束した。
実現していれば多くの罪なきイラク人の命が助かり、
これまではまず望めなかった米国の善意を
くみ取ってもらえる機会となる筈だった。

Now, with roughly $200 million already spent and financing from Washingt
on set to run out in less than nine months,it appears extremely unlikely
that most of those clinics will ever be built. As The Washington Post
reported earlier this month, the Army Corps of Engineers predicts that
no more than 20 clinics will actually be completed ? out of 142.
資金があと九か月ももたないことを考えれば
実際に完成する診療所はわずか20にすぎない情況だ。

America's good intentions should not be allowed to expire with so pathet
ically little achieved. The country's three years in Iraq have been
a cavalcade of squandered opportunities and unanticipated outcomes.
Many of those are now, sadly, beyond retrieval.
The health clinics are not.
せっかくの計画をほとんど成果をあげないまま期限切れとすることは許されない

There appears to be plenty of blame to go around for the health clinics
fiasco.High on the list comes the Bush administration's stubborn refusal
to factor the deteriorating military situation into reconstruction plann
ing. By the time this contract was awarded, in the spring of 2004,
it should have been clear that special security measures would be needed
in many areas.
批判されるべきは、悪化する治安情況を復興計画に組み入れようとしなかった
ブッシュ政権のかたくなな姿勢だ。