This appears to me as another Pakistani rationalization for doing nothing. You might want to know I've had such conversations with Pakistanis (on and off) for nearly thirty years: people who thought that merely by going abroad to gain technical and business skills and bringing these home they were serving their country. Some found out the hard way, others remain perplexed.
Early on - back in the eighteenth century - the Brits quickly picked up that Indians truly lacked some of the thinking skills needed for self-government. That's why only a few regiments of their troops were needed to establish political control over the whole subcontinent. A few Brit-educated Indians like Gandhi and Jinnah tried to apply what they learned to shift the leadership to themselves, but bringing up the level of the independent middle-class appears to be the key trick to making democratic self-rule work.
Last edited by Redbull; 11-20-2012 at 11:57 PM.
Here come the staged Gaza doll photos!
We saw them in Lebanon, and now - they're back!
What would a conflict be without photographers staging photos?
And what better staging is there than dolls?
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A Palestinian boy holds a doll as he walks amid the rubble of a destroyed house after what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip November 20, 2012
A Palestinian man picks up a doll lying on shattered glass in a damaged house following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. (AFP)
A Palestinian boy salvages a stuffed toy from a building destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip (Picture: EPA)
A Palestinian man carries a stuffed toy through a street littered with debris after an air raid on a sporting center in Gaza City on Monday. (CNN
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