Nation Building Farce
April 14, 2004
According to a recent Washington Post article the Pentagon is almost completely incapable of delivering mail to the soldiers in Iraq. Many of them haven’t heard from home in months. This has been going on for as long as anyone can remember, and Pentagon “officials” reportedly haven’t the foggiest idea of how to solve the problem.
But they are clear as a bell on how they will “rebuild” the entire nation of Iraq from the ground up.
I’m just a bit skeptical about that.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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