Thats a very ungrateful version of things. Perhaps my uncle should have just stayed home rather than flying 36 missions in a bomber over Germany.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:50 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] America -- the stalling state The following is from The New Yorker of 16 May and well describes the failed state of Pakistan. The other failed states which America has tried to 'help' in more recent years are Iraq and Afghanistan. The state which America helped the most -- because it ruled it totally for a number of years -- was Japan. That's not so much a failed state as a stalled state (it stalled when America clobbered it with the Plaza 'Accord' in the 1980s) -- to which state America is highly likely to become itself unless Obama can somehow sort out its budget this summer. This is probably the last opportunity he -- or America -- will. It may even become a failed state in future years if the only really important assets it presently has -- its scientific researchers -- are recruited elsewhere (just as America recruited the cream of European science in the last century). Keith <<<< THE DOUBLE GAME Lawrence Wright It's the end of the Second World War, and the United States is deciding what to do about two immense, poor, densely populated countries in Asia. America chooses one of the countries, becoming its benefactor. Over the decades, it pours billions of dollars into that country's economy, training and equipping its military and its intelligence services. The stated goal is to create a reliable ally with strong institutions and a modern, vigorous democracy. The other country, meanwhile, is spurned because it forges alliances with America's enemies. The country not chosen was India, which 'tilted' toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Pakistan became America's protégé, firmly supporting its fight to contain Communism. The benefits that Pakistan accrued from this relationship were quickly apparent: in the nineteen-sixties, its economy was an exemplar. India, by contrast, was a byword for basket case. Fifty years then went by. What was the result of this social experiment? India has become the state that we tried to create in Pakistan. It is a rising economic star, militarily powerful and democratic, and it shares American interests. Pakistan, however, is one of the most anti-American countries in the world, and a covert sponsor of terrorism. Politically and economically, it verges on being a failed state. And, despite Pakistani avowals to the contrary, America's worst enemy, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding there for years - in strikingly comfortable circumstances - before U.S. commandos finally tracked him down and killed him, on May 2nd." >>>> Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/05/
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