Hampered by an increasingly hostile work environment and a bureaucratic culture that discouraged innovation, Canada’s aid blitz in Afghanistan seemed at times “divorced from reality” in the war-ravaged country, concludes a previously secret review of the $1.5-billion program.
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Yes it is easy to post about all the failures and
negatives. However, where are the good
suggestions and illustrations on how to do thing
right, or sucessfully?
Yes those are harder to find, or more difficult to
write about. In order to effect positive change
good factual alternatives need to be presented.
Such would take a good wordsmith with understandingt.
Yet the media and those capable of good insight fail
to illustrate with alternatives.
Of course one reason is that presenting altenatives
takes insight and salemanship, which requires
thought [aka mental work] and work [phyically putting
thoughts to media].
As an aside:
chuckpalahniuk.net/author/bio
litreactor.com/
This blog is largely dedicated to dispelling the powerful myths people cling to about the state and politicians. For an inspiring lecture about the power of commerce, I recommend tuning in to Jeffrey Tucker:
www.lostrepublic.com/archives/5062
www.lostrepublic.com/archives/5553
www.lostrepublic.com/archives/4911
Incidentally:
Regarding your aside — I like Chuck Palahniuk. Would love to meet him some day, but I’ve got a lot of work to do before then.