"By way of comparison, corruption in poor-and-openly-corrupt countries such as Tunisia and Egypt is restrained to 10% off the top. You pay the 10% to someone with influence and you get your contract. That has been the standard take since the Shah of Iran, the likes of Pinochet, and the Banana Republics.
The 10% figure for Third World corruption would have been a joke compared to what Bear and the other MBA bond sellers pulled off."
I do not think it is necessary to point out the lack of respect for human or any kind of rights shown by western countries in Afghanistan/Iraq and any other country them manage to get some control over.
Just lost all respect for this blog ...
ReplyDeleteYour right, bigotry is definitely not "politically correct".
ReplyDeleteTerry — what part about the tighty-whitey-wedgie warning did you not understand?
ReplyDeleteBeen reading a lot of Mark Steyn lately by any chance Ed?
ReplyDeleteWarning: fact-free, bigoted vitriol. May cause blog unsubscription in the not-fucking-racist.
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ReplyDelete"By way of comparison, corruption in poor-and-openly-corrupt countries such as Tunisia and Egypt is restrained to 10% off the top. You pay the 10% to someone with influence and you get your contract. That has been the standard take since the Shah of Iran, the likes of Pinochet, and the Banana Republics.
The 10% figure for Third World corruption would have been a joke compared to what Bear and the other MBA bond sellers pulled off."
I do not think it is necessary to point out the lack of respect for human or any kind of rights shown by western countries in Afghanistan/Iraq and any other country them manage to get some control over.
Edstock, the part where it supposedly justifies posting that racist crap. I like most of what you post, but you weren't only being ironic.
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http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2010/12/mullahs-are-mad.html
Indonesia, the most populous nation in the Islamic world, is the counterexample to this particular rant.
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