Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
The micro-loans banks would be *very* useful in Afghanistan and slightly less useful in Iraq....
Marc
Early last year, I tried to float to an op-ed suggesting that USAID redirect a substantial portion (several billions) of reconstruction funding for Iraq into microloans. While the op-ed didn't go anywhere, I'm still very interested in economic development and what is (or isn't happening).

I'm curious why do you think micro-credit would be less useful in Iraq?

(NOTE: This my first post here -- I first ran across this board a few days ago, and the discussions are fascinating. My only experience with war was NOT a COIN operation, but as an Abrams crewman in the '91 war.)