Word: reconstructionism
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Garner did not tell them, "I shall return," but return he has, and not just to the Kurdish regions of the north. In January the affable Garner, who retired from the Army six years ago, was plucked from civilian life by his old friend Donald Rumsfeld to head the Pentagon...
For now, Garner and his operation are a government-in-waiting--a few hundred former generals, aid workers and diplomats standing by in Kuwait, awaiting Saddam's defeat. Once that happens, they will cross the border to become the nerve center of postwar Iraq. Advance teams are ready to move...
Garner will need all his charm and resolve to referee the tug-of-war between the departments of Defense and State for influence over the reconstruction process. In addition, some international relief organizations are balking at the idea of working under military supervision. Garner reports directly to General Tommy Franks...
In the Clinton Administration, and in every other Administration since Eisenhower, this sort of issue was the special province of the President's National Security Adviser. "We found that giving a reconstruction program over to one government department simply didn't work," says James Dobbins, a former NSC staff member...
A Colorado native who speaks Russian and Croatian, he studied classics at Colorado College and is writing his master’s thesis on post-war reconstruction in Bosnia.