Colgate University professor Jay Mandle was among several experts cited in a widely distributed Associated Press article about reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
Mandle, the W. Bradford Wiley Professor of economics, said in the article published Nov. 14 that the Bush administration should use its business expertise to help globalize the Iraqi economy and avoid potential misuse of billions in
The AP story focused on the stepped-up timetable for transferring power to Iraqis and fears among U.S. officials that corruption could impede those efforts. The article was picked up by numerous newspapers around the nation.
Back in November, before the United States declared war on Iraq, Mandle suggested in a Commonweal magazine essay that any conflict with Iraq would be more about oil concerns than those of terror and mass destruction.
Mandle chronicled both the evolution of the Bush administration’s focus on and the increasingly fragile relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. He documented links between oil and terrorism, and terrorism and Saudi Arabia.
He suggested that the Bush administration was seeking an alternate ‘swing producer’ of oil to free the United States from its significant dependence on Saudi Arabia
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