Alas

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Nov 23, 2009 at 17:25

Well, it seems that US money is being poured down more and more ratholes, foreign and domestic, than ever before.

Surely there must be a cadre of engineers somewhere in Iraq. The Ba'athist state managed to pump the oil as needed.

I suspect that another big part of the problem was that Sodom Insane, like all good long-lasting dictators, managed that any political talent that might possibly compete with him went six-feet under. This meant that once the Ba'ath regime was ousted, the rebuilding of Iraqi political culture would have been a matter for the long, long haul.

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