Well, that's certainly the start of a different sort of discussion on Iraq
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 3:27AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

FRONT PAGE: "Iran's Cheap Goods Stifle Iraq Economy," by Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, 18 March 2009.

Fear that Iran is having the same dampening effect on Iraq's domestic industry that China often has on less developed economies: flooding with cheap goods so that locals can't compete. Upside? Access to cheap goods. But downside grates more and more as time passes.

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