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Jul 8 01:32 UTC 2003

Re #51:  So, Tod, how's the development and democratization going in
Afghanistan?  People got increasing faith in the central government?
No chance of the warlords getting out of hand again and popular
discontent leading to another takeover by the likes of Taliban?

A lot of people opposed the war because they figured that we'd win
the war but lose the peace and come out worse.  So far they seem to
have been calling it pretty well.

If I were running Iraq right now, the first thing I would do is
conduct a census.  The second thing I would do is to put all of
the national industries under corporate ownership, and distribute
shares to the entire Iraqi population.  Third, I'd start the oil
industry (for one) paying dividends from its revenues.  If there
was any way to convince the whole nation that they don't want
anyone like Saddam ever again, that would probably do it.