Slapout sums it up neatly.
Whether it's Colombia, Sinaloa, Afghanistan, Iraq, or Lebanon. The motive is acquisition of power, and that power rests on finances/economics, discriminate use of...
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Slapout sums it up neatly.
Whether it's Colombia, Sinaloa, Afghanistan, Iraq, or Lebanon. The motive is acquisition of power, and that power rests on finances/economics, discriminate use of...
Bill, Apologies for coming late to the discussion. I'm retired AID after Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and others. A jarhead, I don't know how AID let me in.
Re CERP and less violence -- why...
Alcon - I've been uncharacteristically quiet the last few weeks. Work got in the way. I hate it when that happens.
Vertnyc,
I'm a retired AID officer, enjoying the Iraqi sun for past 3 years,...
Steve.
Who writes that stuff? The authors I recognized spent their tours in Baghdad in the friendly confines of the Republican Palace.
see also Imperial Life in the Emerald City, but don't buy...
Steve,
Apologies for seeming prickly. I agree that it's the contract culture. But like honest politicians, good contractors stay bought and get their job done with a minimum of whining.
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Although warned, Ken, I plunge in anyway.
USAID isn't the agency it was some time ago when it was just AID. Contracts officers run the place now, auditors have stifled innovation with fear, and...
Steve,
I agree that direct hire govt employees might be more efficient than those awful contractors, of whom I'm one. But the Feds aren't allowed outside the wire without massive security. ...
Steve and Hugh,
After watching the USG operate in post-conflict situations, I offer that civilian federal government agencies will never be useful sources of the SMEs required to carry out the...