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Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous

In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future. They call it Haiti 2.0. They gathered Friday to discuss logistics and planning of the reconstruction operation, which will likely to take years. The first step is to reduce the population [...]

Reconstruction for the USA

Something worth noting is that for a hegemonic power suffering from slow-but-steady (but very slow) relative decline, wasting money on national security expenditures actually erodes our hegemony. Meaningful U.S.-Chinese security competition is a generation or two away. By that time, money that was spent in 2009 on fighter planes or nuclear submarines or transportation infrastructure [...]