Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about “Uncle Sam” ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...