Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry

Washington Post:
Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq. One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs. The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting the CIA to dispute the validity of Brinkley's work.

His transgression? To begin reopening dozens of government-owned factories in Iraq. (cont.)

The rampant unemployment in Iraq is fueling the insurgency. The reason we have this problem is because the neocon ideologues feel that the free market will fix everything. It's quite clear now that this mindset has given us disastrous results in Iraq and elsewhere.