We paid the insurgents in Iraq; it looked good in dispatches (ignore the long-term effects)
Slowly the truth comes out about our awesome counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, as in this excerpt from “Aiding the Insurgency“, Luke Mogelson, The Nation, 12 May 2010 — Worth reading in full. Last summer the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) closed one of its largest projects in Iraq, declaring that it had been …