Rory Stewart Quotes

In The Evening [the Iraqi Interim Governor Of Maysan Province] Asked Me For Fifty Dollars To Repair His Windows, Which Had Been Destroyed In A Recent Demonstration. Although He Was The Governor, His Salary Was Only Four Hundred And Fifty Dollars A Month, And Baghdad Had Still Not Agreed To Give The Governors An Independent Budget ... For The Sake Of A Tiny Sum Of Money - A Couple Thousand Dollars A Month From The Hundred Billion We Had Spent On The Invasion - We Were Alienating Our Key Partner And Successor.
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