Nation building and the 2000 campaign -- Musical chairs : positioning for a top job on the new team -- Transition to government -- From now on, we will only request a supplemental in wartime -- 9/11 -- Funding Operation Enduring Freedom -- Pakistan -- Passing the tin cup -- The cost of war -- Gearing up for Iraq, losing focus on Afghanistan -- Coordinator for Afghanistan reconstruction -- War fever -- A second war, the first unfinished -- On the road : New York, Latin America, Iraq, Poland, Spain -- I am the custodian of the Iraqi people -- Engaging Syria -- Defense contractors -- Afghanistan, we haven't forgotten you -- Epilogue : where do we go from here?.
Summary:
"Presents details behind the Bush administration's policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq from the point of view of a high-level budget official in the U.S. Defense Department involved in the day-to-day management of funding Afghan reconstruction beginning in 2002"--Provided by publisher.
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