His "first task", Austin said in his first press briefing since Barack Obama took the US back to war in Iraq, will be to aid Iraqi forces in restoring security, reconstituting Iraq's border with Syria and "regenerat[ing] some much-needed combat power".
The IMF is therefore likely to be closely involved with Icelandic policymakers in reconstituting the banks, in fiscal planning, and with regard to the central bank's monetary policy, which will have to keep interest rates above inflation.Despite the extreme nature of the crisis, the IMF believes that robust growth can resume in the Icelandic economy from 2011.
But past form suggests she will find it hard to eat her words, even if negotiation seems the best option.Rumours are flying that Argentina may try to continue paying its exchange bondholders without paying the hold-outs by somehow transferring the restructured bonds out of US jurisdiction and reconstituting them under Argentine law.
Based on the intelligence available at the time, the objective conclusion would have been that: it was highly unlikely Iraq possessed weapons; there was no credible evidence to suggest Iraqis were reconstituting a nuclear-weapons programme; no relationship existed between Iraq and al-Qaeda; and in no way did Iraq represent a threat to its neighbours let alone an imminent threat to America.
They argue that by creating chaos and showing up the police as inadequate, the former officers hope to make the case for reconstituting the army, which Mr Aristide disbanded in 1995.Whoever the instigators are, there has been little effort to disarm the armed groups on both sides.
Memories of empire also play a part in this deceit: some Tory Eurosceptics even dream of reconstituting it as an alternative to the EU, in the form of an Anglophone or Commonwealth trade block.Given that there is no obvious appetite for such an arrangement from any other country, this suggests how deluded they are.
Their claim that Iraq was "reconstituting its nuclear programme" was based on the country's import of some aluminium tubes that could have been used for other purposes, and was fiercely contested by most experts across the agencies.
Or it could become a junior partner to Mrs Merkel's CDU, reconstituting the "grand coalition" that ruled from 2005 to 2009.Mrs Merkel must thus do two things.
They also want the Ugandan government to close its camps in the north and to disband the national army, before reconstituting it under international supervision to redress what they say is discrimination against northerners.The big man hasn't yet turned upAlso on the agenda this week was a ceasefire.
It is reconstituting its forces by retreating to parts of the interior it sees as safe; it has killed over 90 Yemeni officials and tribal leaders since 2012.
Both inside and outside Iraq, reports are growing that the Baath is reconstituting itself, after melting away before the Anglo-American advance.In southern Iraqi cities, neighbours speak of night-time gatherings of Baathist leaders, and of arms smuggling.
