King Midas In Reverse
By Wheeler and Marshall on the role of Bush crony Ray “Son of Howard” Hunt in the collapse of the Iraq oil deal, which would seem to ensure that nothing remotely resembling a viable Iraqi state is on the horizon. The frightening thing about Iraq has always been that it would be enormously difficult to construct a functioning (let alone democratic) Iraqi state out of no civil society and longstanding sectarian conflict if the leadership of the country that razed the previous state had any idea what it was doing.