Insurgents and terrorists in Iraq are motivated significantly by the perception that they will not get a fair share of power or pie in the new Iraq; they want the U.S. gone not because the U.S. harms citizens but so they can have a more dominant role than they would otherwise have, making their incentives destructive to cooperative reconstruction.

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Speaker

Christopher Coyne

Evidence Quote

if you don't feel like you're part of the game ... is large enough for how what you perceive it should be one response to that is ... to engage in terrorism

Source

Christopher Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War 04/07/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:29:02 AM

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