Michael Dobbs vs. the Tsunami: Give a Man a Fish...
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Our favoriteWaPotsunami correspondent, Michael Dobbs , who you may remember from his tsunami reports filed from his family's private island, has a blog! And it's... From a Western perspective, it's tempting to give the new boat to the fishermen and organize them into a cooperative so they can reap the full benefit of their labor. But if you do that, you disturb a deeply rooted power structure underpinned by friendships and enmities going back decades that take an anthropologist to comprehend. That was one of the mistakes the U.S. made in Iraq: blundering in and imposing a new power structure with little understanding of how Iraqi society worked.
Michael Dobbs vs. the Tsunami: Give a Man a Fish...
Michael Dobbs vs. the Tsunami: Give a Man a…
Michael Dobbs vs. the Tsunami: Give a Man a Fish...
Our favoriteWaPotsunami correspondent, Michael Dobbs , who you may remember from his tsunami reports filed from his family's private island, has a blog! And it's... From a Western perspective, it's tempting to give the new boat to the fishermen and organize them into a cooperative so they can reap the full benefit of their labor. But if you do that, you disturb a deeply rooted power structure underpinned by friendships and enmities going back decades that take an anthropologist to comprehend. That was one of the mistakes the U.S. made in Iraq: blundering in and imposing a new power structure with little understanding of how Iraqi society worked.