>>We [expletive deleted] at least have broad agreement that
developing-country
governments are corrupt, by and large (East Asia excepted) lack the
competence to run successful developmental states, and hence the best
chance is to try to shrink them to keep them out of the way of
economic development for a generation or so. <<
But such tough love regimes seem to be limited to those who can't buy their way into the politics of the US Empire.
Why hasn't the US-- with 'ethical' companies like Dyncorp, Halliburton and Carlyle Group in cooperation with the national security state-- done that in the oil rich states of the Persian Gulf? You Summers Democrats just didn't get around to it, right? And now it's the Texans' turn again?
Charles 'MF' Jannuzi