On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]>wrote:
> > deregulation and free trade. Both of > these are unlikely events, but it doesn't make it less true that it is > what is required. > > One of the saddest reports I heard after the Taliban was overthrown in > Afghanistan was of a small town where the local warlord had decreed > that no one could buy bricks for rebuilding from anyone but his > family, which would happily overcharge for them. I realized that the > latest revolution was doomed right then. This is the way countries are > lost to poverty and terrorism, but few people seem to see it. > > An equally sad report for me came just after the Iraqi government was > overthrown by the US military. A South African entrepreneur had > arrived in Bagdad with his small fleet of jets, proposing to start > shuttle service between Bagdad, Amman and some other regional > cities. He was informed by the US military that he couldn't start his > service because they had not yet decided who to give a monopoly on air > transport to. . > > Telling incidents Perry....terrorism is not just bombs and direct murder...trade and cultural terrorism works just as effectively.... monopoly is the terrorism of trade, because sooner rather than later, human greed is the operative factor in a monopoly. Deepa.
