By the time the 75th NCAA men’s basketball tournament champion is crowned late on the night of April 8 in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, more than 500,000 fans will have attended the games and an average of about 6 million television viewers will have watched each of the 63 games.
What has the U.S. achieved by pumping $60 billion — an average of $625,000 every hour — into Iraq to fix what the American invasion 10 years ago had broken?
Not all that much, according to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The biggest American reconstruction project since the post-World War II Marshall plan was crippled by bad planning, fraud, corruption and outright theft.
The birth of their grandchild will often cause a retiree, or a retired couple, to visit frequently.
