McQ over at QandO has a link to a soon-to-be-legendary US government study that could serve as a textbook example of the Law of Unintended Consequences, or possibly the Law of Well, It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time. I won’t spoil the surprise; Conrad of the Gweilo Diaries found it fair and square, so he gets the fun of presenting it.
(Via Cold Fury)