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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.
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