Erik Reuter wrote: > >In Iraq? > Ahh - too much snippage (for a change)... I thought we had been discussing Afghanistan as evidence of what the US could or couldn't achieve post-invasion.
To get with the thread (instead of trailing a day or so behind it...) - I think Iraq will be different because of the potential rewards. Countries from around the globe will be falling over themselves to get involved in rehabilitating Iraq, and given that a very general assumption is that more open politics leads to a more open economy, they will be looking for alternatives to dictators (not counting purveyors of gold plated bathroom fixtures, torture implements, statue carvers and other beneficiaries of dictatorships of course). A Dutch company may just buy the place and run it as a corporation like they have a few small African nations. Cheers Russell C. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
