What Went Wrong In Iraq?

Thoughts from blogger www.Samizdata.net: "De-Ba'athication removed one possible source of security without an immediate replacement, allowing the militias to rush into the vacuum. Rather than moving whole-heartedly towards liberalisation and free-market reforms on the German model after the Second World War, Iraq has retained a large-scale state structure, a bureaucratic model of planning with some privatised tinkering around the edges and has sucked in a vast amount of aid, recycled through a less than transparent contracting process that favoured dependency and inefficiency. Iraqis voted in the referendum for these expectations, and were sold a cart without a horse."

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