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Why Iraq's Economy Never Recovered From The U.S. Invasion

Ones and Tooze

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The Legacy of the War in Military Spending

The U.S. military budget has reached new historic highs, well over $800 billion a year. Adam Sobel: This was the one thing that the increasingly polarized and divided American political system could agree on doing. He says we've dropped any expectation that the military will be used for democracy promotion as the term was during the Iraq war. The sky's the limit at this point, he adds.

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