On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > > The most glaring recent example of this philosophy in action was the > "Transitional Government Authority" (or whatever it was called) put in place > in Iraq by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal right after the 2003 invasion and > headed by the American Viceroy Paul Bremmer. Under the Rumsfeld/Bremmer plan, > what little remained of the Iraqi state was forcibly dissolved on the theory > that everything was going to be run by NGOs and private companies and the > magic fairy dust of the free market was going to magically fix all problems. > >
Its interesting that the "installed" government in Somalia is also called "Transitional Federal Government" - the president is a British-Somali , the prime minister is an American-Somali, and most of the cabinet lives in Nairobi.
