Have you ever spent time in a community or culture where haggling is central to most transactions?
Until recently, this man was the central government of Iraq.
Nobody haggled with him.
But some of the old ways could continue in the outlying communities and provinces.
So, as governmental structures are being rebuilt, or where necessary, reinvented, it might not be a surprise to see more progress in those outlying communities and provinces than in Baghdad.
As seems to be the case.
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