I am reminded today of that wonderful TV show on public television. The exploration of the interrelations between inventions, historical events, and the unintended consequences of everyone's choices. Why? Most of the reconstruction funds us military types have access to nowadays come in the form of ICERP, since all the American cash is tied up with paying the Sons of Iraq. Not only is there less of it than there was on the last deployment, but it's more restricted, since we want to encourage the Iraqi government to do most of their own damn reconstruction.
Well, those funds just got cut to $10 million for the entire province. Now, that sounds like a lot, but it ain't. My CA sergeant's team, a single CA team, spent apparently upwards of $15 million last time they were here. Those funds were cut because the Iraqi government gets 90% of their money from oil revenues. With oil dropping like a rock (I hear gas back in the states is down around $2.25 again), all those projected dollars/dinars have gone poof. One of the primary causes of oil's decline is the global economic troubles we're facing. Why are we facing a global recession? Well for one thing, a bunch of wealthy twits with no long-term sense decided to run up the housing market to unsustainable levels, creating one of the most important preconditions for this crash.
That's right. A bunch of Wall Street and D.C. stuffed suits stabbed the slowly awakening corpse of the Iraqi nation/state...FROM THE PAST. What the hell?
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