the "friedman option":
Laura Rosen, having stumbled across an old Newsweek article, wonders if the Friedman option isn't a little like sponsoring genocide. At the same time Matthew Yglesias borders on channelling the wsws.
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your turing test:
Oil for Nothing:US Holds On Humanitarian SuppliesIraq: 1997-2001
the good book and other cultural artifacts