I learned a lot from her article, mainly that there’s even more I don’t know than I think I don’t know. She explained the problems without being in your face about it, and leaves the reader with the sense that ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’ concerning what is actually happening in Iraq.

The devil is always in the details, and it’s the refusal to even look at details that makes careless accusations of incompetence and lack of planning so juvenile.

What reporter has asked himself the simple question: How are Iraqi’s paid for their work? If he has, he answers himself by rueing the reconstruction costs that could have been spent ‘elsewhere’ rather than looking at the creation of the actual process, what hurdles it must overcome, and its success.

Excellent article, Simone.