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Exiting Iraq: The Economic Reasoning

BY CHRIS COYNE Among many other problems, the current U.S. occupation of Iraq suffers from a problem of incentive misalignment. From the beginning of the occupation, the United States made very clear its firm commitment to stay the course. This provided a disincentive to members of the Iraqi populace as well as to Iraq’s neighbors [...]

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Reconstruction in Iraq: How Much is Needed, How Can it be Measured?

BY DAVID DAVIS The coalition intervention in Iraq of the spring of 2003 was carried out to depose a cruel and heinous dictator, Saddam Hussein. There has been much press and conjecture about other reasons for the intervention. What is little debated however, is that the Iraq that the coalition found was in great need. [...]

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