Iraq Reconstruction Parallels w/DOGE

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5. This

It is the young radical partisans being given free reign that reminds me the most of Iraq. It's the arrogance that goes with the 'move-fast-and-break-things' crowd that stands out as similar for me.

I am constantly reminded of this quote from a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine.

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.