I have not been to many miserable, downtrodden countries, and I have little urge to visit them anyway. However, I think it is interesting to think about different countries like Syria and Zimbabwe and Iran and China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan.
As far as the first three are concerned, they are poverty stricken wrecks because of the Great Satan. Some how, us evil bastards in the West have conspired to keep them down and to mire them in misery, injustice and filth.
Consider the last 4 however. China has been the train wreck of the 20th century - partitioned by the western powers, invaded by the Japs, civil war, communism, the Great Leap Forward and all that - and now the place is booming like no tomorrow. Given how ravaged the place was from about 1900 to 1975, it's amazing they even have electricity.
Then there is Korea, which was essentially blown and bombed to hell and back from 1950 to 1953 - and that was after it had been walked all over by the Japs for a few decades. Yet in just 50 years, South Korea has gone from a bombed out rice paddy to a country to be reckoned with.
Then there is Vietnam - apparantly the Yanks dropped more bombs on Vietnam than on Germany. The place was bombed pretty much into the stone age, yet it seems to be bouncing back pretty vigourously now.
And then there is Japan - a place that was firebombed into ashes and then nuked - twice. Look at the place now.
It seems that if you want to kick start economic growth and progress, the best bet is to pick a fight with the West, get the tar kicked out of you and then get on with it. If Iraq manages to follow these other bombed into the stone age examples, come about 2025, it will have overtaken the UAE as the boomtown of the Middle East.
Which is why we should nuke Iran now - they'll thank us for it in 25 years time.
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