[lbo-talk] FT: “The US government did not push hard enough for American companies to invest”

[Wojtek S]

SA quoted: "After almost nine years, $1tn spent and 4,487 American and
179 British lives lost, the US is withdrawing from Iraq, leaving the
country’s vast economic spoils to nations that neither supported nor
participated in the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Turkey, Iran, China, South Korea and Arab states have already invested
billions in Iraq, far outpacing their US and UK counterparts in every
non-oil sector from transport and telecoms to housing and
construction."

[WS:] Cant' help but grin.  Yet another sign of imperial decay.

Wojtek