{"id":101,"date":"2004-05-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","slug":"why-is-the-cpa-such-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/22\/why-is-the-cpa-such-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the CPA such a failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it’s run by a bunch of 20-something interns straight out of
\ncollege, or so says the Washington Post.
\n[url<\/a> – HREF=”http:\/\/opendna.freeshell.net\/mirrors\/WAPOST-TheJobOpportunityOfALifetime.
\nhtm”>mirror<\/a>]<\/p>\n

When the U.S. government went looking for people to help
\nrebuild Iraq, they had responded to the call. They supported the war
\neffort and President Bush. Many had strong Republican credentials. They
\nwere in their twenties or early thirties and had no foreign service
\nexperience… Viewed from the outside, their experience illustrates many
\nof the problems that have beset the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional
\nAuthority (CPA), a paucity of experienced applicants, a high turnover
\nrate, bureaucracy, partisanship and turf wars… For months they wondered
\nwhat they had in common, how their names had come to the attention of the
\nPentagon, until one day they figured it out: They had all posted their
\nresumes at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank…
\nRetired U.S. Army Col. Charles Krohn said many in the CPA regard the
\noccupation “as a political event,” always looking for a way to make the
\npresident look good… The group’s primary responsibility was to hand out
\nmoney. Each month, it sent out authorizations for the release of several
\nhundred million dollars for government employees’ salaries, reconstruction
\nprojects and sundry other expenses… The staffers’ good will, hard
\nwork and willingness to stay in Iraq impressed CPA representatives
\nfrom other ministries, but it did little to alter the reality that
\nthe budget office had become a bottleneck. The U.S.-led coalition had come
\nseeking to establish a strong economy with high-paying jobs, functioning
\nfactories and a rich consumer market. This was seen as the road to
\ndemocracy. Far from such lofty missions, the budget team had its hands
\nfull just keeping things running… “The people who came were young and
\nkeen—not necessarily the most experienced—but they were here. They
\ndid a great job in working as hard as they could.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nNow, I’m the last to bang on someone because of their age. But were they
\nsleeping thru political science? Maybe they needed some more anthropology
\nclasses thrown in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd who the hell decided it was a good idea to have the country run by
\npeople with no experience at all? Hasn’ t anyone heard of tele-commuting?
\nOne more example of how BushCo fuxored things. So much for having a plan
\nfor the post-war environment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it’s run by a bunch of 20-something interns straight out of college, or so says the Washington Post. [url – HREF=”http:\/\/opendna.freeshell.net\/mirrors\/WAPOST-TheJobOpportunityOfALifetime. htm”>mirror] When the U.S. government went looking for people to help rebuild Iraq, they had responded to the call. They supported the war effort and President Bush. Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[17,23],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}