TITLE

Drop Zone

AUTHOR(S)
Ackerman, Spencer
PUB. DATE
September 2002
SOURCE
New Republic;9/9/2002 - 9/16/2002, Vol. 227 Issue 11/12, p10
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Comments on the move of President George W. Bush in establishing the postwar nation-building operations to improve the foreign policy in the U.S. Creation of a Marshall Plan for Central Asia; Questions of Secretary Defense Donald Rumsfeld involving the role of military on international peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan; Appropriation of the government for the post-Taliban reconstruction program.
ACCESSION #
7259169

Tags: BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-;  UNITED States -- Foreign relations;  RUMSFELD, Donald, 1932-;  PEACEKEEPING forces;  ARMED Forces -- Appropriations & expenditures

 

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