The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

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[–]VirgilGriff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US should've either done nothing, or gone in, killed/displaced the natives, and colonized the land. If we had done that then Iraq today would be a booming up-and-coming land of promise, where US citizens could emigrate to to make their fortune in a new land of risk and reward. That's been the only successful model of taking over native populations. Otherwise you get what we have now: an excuse to redistribute money between elites while breeding new generations of terrorists and people that have zero respect or understanding of our culture or way of life.