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To all those feeling negatively about this project, I think you've missed an important feature of it. The embassy staff is going to be larger. I'm not talking about the security folks, but the on-the-ground folks that do the actual embassy work.
One of the largest failings of this whole mess has been the lack of support from the non-military branches of the administration. Where has the Department of Agriculture been? Last I heard, they'd sent a total of 10 people in 4 years. How's that going to help anything? What about HUD? Or Transportation? I don't think anyone here will argue that putting people to work wouldn't reduce the level of violence.
There are lots of career experts working within the administration that could be giving valuable advice on rebuilding the country, but they're still here. My hope is that the new embassy will be have a lot more people helping to rebuild the country. Maybe that's pie-in-the-sky, but it seems logical.
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