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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Government Finds Iraq Reconstruction a Mess


“The first official history of the $25 billion American reconstruction effort in Iraq depicts a program hobbled from the outset by gross understaffing, a lack of technical expertise, bureaucratic infighting, secrecy and constantly increasing security costs, according to a preliminary draft.” (New York Times, Tuesday)

Bureaucracies will be bureaucracies.

FEE Timely Classic
“Knowledge and Decisions” by Allan C. Brownfeld