russ (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} goulo) wrote,@ 2007-05-21 18:12:00 |
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$592 million embassy in bagdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,
Why did anyone think it was a good idea to spend a record-breaking $592 million on a new US embassy in Bagdad the size of the Vatican ("the biggest and most expensive US embassy on earth")? Halliburton or some other construction company must be very happy. Is there really nothing better to spend that money on, instead of a giant target for insurgent attacks?
Usono konstruas grandegan grandiozan ambasadejon en Bagdado, kiu estos la plej granda usona ambasadejo ie ajn en la mondo. (Ĝi samgrandas kiel la Vatikano!) La kosto estas 592 milionoj da dolaroj. Absurda stulta malŝpara granda celo por atakoj.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,
Why did anyone think it was a good idea to spend a record-breaking $592 million on a new US embassy in Bagdad the size of the Vatican ("the biggest and most expensive US embassy on earth")? Halliburton or some other construction company must be very happy. Is there really nothing better to spend that money on, instead of a giant target for insurgent attacks?
But commentators and Iraq experts believe the project was flawed from its inception, and have raised concerns it will become an enormous, heavily targeted white elephant that will be an even greater liability if and when the Americans scale back their presence in Iraq.
"What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are," Edward Peck, a former American diplomat in Iraq, told AP.
"What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?"
Usono konstruas grandegan grandiozan ambasadejon en Bagdado, kiu estos la plej granda usona ambasadejo ie ajn en la mondo. (Ĝi samgrandas kiel la Vatikano!) La kosto estas 592 milionoj da dolaroj. Absurda stulta malŝpara granda celo por atakoj.
