“Investors and policymakers once feared that when U.S. combat troops withdrew from Iraq, the country would crash and burn. Instead, over the next several years, a surge in oil revenue and the need to rebuild will make Iraq one of the world’s most attractive investment destinations. … Iraq already ranks No. 12 on the list of the world’s fastest-growing economies. … To be sure, Iraq still has plenty of political problems, beginning with the fact that, months after parliamentary elections, the country still has no new government.”