(June 2, 2003) Robert Looney, professor of National Security Affairs, and Associate Chairman of Instruction, Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, examines Iraq’s fiscal challenges and possible financial strategies. "Establishing the right of a country such as Iraq to write off odious debt would have potentially huge benefits, not the least by discouraging banks from lending to similar tyrants that might one day be overthrown," argues Mr. Looney. He says, "using the odious debt doctrine.