re: #420 EPR-radar

Good points. The Bush administration took what might have come out as something of a wash with good luck and best practices in the post-war period, and turned it into an unmitigated disaster.

The drive to “privatize” the recovery is a big part of what made it a mess. And I have a hard time looking at the Bremer plan and not feeling that there was a lot of cynicism built in. Just like with IMF/World Bank loan schemes—and for that matter, in private prisons in the US—the people being “helped” were paying way more than the services theoretically being provided.