<p>^^ That’s the irony of trying to impose “freedom” from without.</p>
<p>Seems to me, much the same thing happened in the early days of the Iraq war (decades after MF’s efforts with Chile). Young Republican operatives went in thinking they could set up a laboratory for instituting policies like the flat tax. Did not speak the local language, did not understand the culture, did not succeed.</p>
<p>Don’t wanna get this too far off track though.</p>