The Iraqi city of Falluja may require more than $1 billion to rebuild; the U.S. is promising a fraction of that.
"Even before the attack, the U.S. promised that a newly liberated Falluja would be spectacularly reconstructed -- "a feat of social and physical engineering intended to transform a bastion of militant anti-Americanism into a benevolent and functional metropolis." But the deepest tragedy lay...in the near certainty that the promised reconstruction will never take place, simply because the Bush administration is unlikely ever to allocate the massive resources needed for such an undertaking. The monetary commitment cited by U.S. officials escalated from a pre-attack $50 million to an early January estimate of $230 million. But this figure...is actually a fraction of what would needed to recreate a modestly working city and a minuscule proportion of the total required to create "a benevolent and functional metropolis."
Thanks to Michael Dudley
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