The arrogance of power
Invade a country, (re)destroy the infrastructure, then bring in some well connected friends to "fix" things up at only 100x the cost of hiring the native contractors who fixed up their country after the last time your family bombed the shit out of it, and then when those "fixes" don't work, blame the natives!
I guess the only "good" side of this is that while the well connected friends are "fixing" Iraq they won't care much about "fixing" things in the United States; the usual 10x cost-plus contract that the well connected friends can get for doing public works projects in the United States are peanuts compared to the 100x cost-plus contract that a well connected friend can get in Iraq, plus they don't even have to make it work to get paid over there.
But, remember, the adults are in control now, and no female intern will be giving the Coward in Chief blowjobs in the Oval Office!