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Oerdin
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of Internet Music.
Sep 2001
time: 21:32
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Originally posted by Oncle Boris
To summarize: American imperialism is threatening; economic vassalization is humiliating. Given America's foreign policy, both sentiments are not unjustified.
Guess what's going to happen in Iraq: the money of the reconstruction will go back to the US through profits. Iraqis will likely get the low-ranking jobs while foreign engineers direct the whole thing. Oil companies will import their own worker and have them live in rich and enclosed quarters to protect them against Iraqi resentment (which can only rise from such actions).
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You have a point about Arabs/Iraqis feeling like the US/UK is acting in an Imperial fashion and that they feel threatened by this though this is more preception then reality. Still, an interesting point. How do we change this while still accomplishing vital national goals such as eliminating terrorist supporting governments & while supporting pro-western/pro-capitalist ME governments?
You are also right that in order to equip Iraqi production facilities with the latest equipment and technology trained foreign experts will have to be brought in. Iraq is a very poorly educated country & they've been isolated from international business by 13 years of sanctions and 35 years of government nationalization during which the whole industry stagnated. 42% of the Iraqi population is illiterate, 12% have graduated from high school, and 4% have a college degree so businesses just aren't going to find that many trained experts in any given career field & foreign workers will have to be brought in until locals can be trained. Educating enough workers in the relavent fields will likely take a generation but this approach has worked in Asia and Latin America and now both of those places are largely self-sufficent in technical expertise. Compare that to how things were in 1945.
BTW there aren't going to be any net profits from the US/UK involvement in Iraq. These sorts of things always cost more then you make out of them and everyone knows that. Ergo the reason they are doing it is not profits.
Last edited by Oerdin on 22-12-2003 at 03:56
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:32
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quote:
Originally posted by GePap
I wonder why Oerdin has such an Arab hangup?
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Can I say find that response a tad personal? I have been using the utmost restraint to avoid pointing out that certain posters (im not thinking of you in particular Ge, so much as some of our European friends) have an "Israeli hangup" or even more broadly "a Jewish hangup" but i know that hinting at antisemitism in that manner is a hot button for many, and so ive self-censored. If Oerdin has an interest in the arab world, at a time when over a 100,000 US troops are in an arab country, and when the US is in a global war against an organization whose top leadership is composed of arabs (principally Egyptians and Saudis, in case anyone was thinking im confusing arabs and muslims) I hardly see that as evidence of a hangup.
Last edited by lord of the mark on 23-12-2003 at 02:03
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21-12-2003 11:37
Employing that kind of thinking will only serve to make this type of ideology more fierce.
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