ARTICLE: Iraq's economy: The Kurdish region seeks more foreign investment, the Economist, Apr 4th 2007

No need to add to Keir's analysis:

Excellent article from the economist of Kurdistan. Highlights while things are still not great they are getting better. Reads like the analysis of many developing countries: booming construction, weak infrastructure, underdeveloped financial markets. Good sign about the good in Iraq. Westerners can travel unaccompanied, compare that to Baghdad! Keir Lauritzen

Except to note that one of our biggest challenges in this Long War will be learning to accept that almost all of our victories will be partial ones. If we weren't so damn binary as a society in our approach to strategic issues, life would be a lot easier. Suffice to say, the grand strategist learns to love ambiguity. It's written into the DNA code of any real visionary. As Art Cebrowski liked to say: "Plant the flag downrange and then turn your forces loose. Don't tell them how, just give them the vector."