Is the intellectual elite out of touch with reality?

It has been a central conceit of the progressive movement since the early 1900's that simply getting enough smart people together will cure all our problems.

This is the approach of technocracy -- rule by experts.  We tried it.  Wilson and his ilk "solved" the problem of world peace after WWI, Kennedy and his brain trust "solved" the Bay of Pigs crisis with Cuba, Reagan and his A-Team of savvy business people "broke down" the Soviet Union, George W. Bush and his close circle of neo-cons "prevailed" over evil in the Middle East.

All of them with their elite "Ivy leaguers" thought they were going to redraw the maps of the globe.  All what they did was create a bigger mess than ever in every single corner of the globe.... We're still cleaning up the mess in the Middle East caused by acts of hubris and years of "rookie" foreign policy. We now have practically every country in the world on our back resenting our actions after having lost all trust in us to say  the least.... and this is just the beginning.

For More: http://www.financialpolicycouncil.org/fpcnew/blogdetails.aspx?id=1105/Is-the-Intellectual-Elite-Out-of-Touch-with-Reality

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How effective has US foreign policy in Middle East | Ziad Abdelnour

My short answer – with the sole exception of the Camp David accords – is somewhere between “completely ineffective” and “making a bad situation worse”.

Unfortunately, it seems that all of the US’s current problems in the Middle East are of our own making… and the cynically minded would even say that this is by design.

So the U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East has done nothing but totally destabilize the world. Thanks to our foreign policy luminaries from our supposedly “elite” ivory towers a la Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc…. hundreds of thousands of refugees are invading Europe. Soon, Europeans will be second class citizens in our own continent thanks to America.

It was the same in Somalia… Yes it was horrific seeing them all starve, but now it’s happening on the streets of Europe thanks to our incompetent “Ivy Leaguers” trying to play Gods by advising naive Presidents of how to remove pathetic dictators … It should’ve been up to the people of Somalia to remove their leader themselves.  We never learned anything.

For More: http://ziadabdelnour.org/how-effective-has-us-foreign-policy-in-the-middle-east-been-over-the-last-50-years/

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The Middle East Is An Investment Opportunity

The most ironic part of it is the total ignorance of economic theory on the part of the journalists who propagate the stereotype of the Middle East at large as the hotbed of extremism, radicalism, Islamism and terrorism and nothing else.But they're missing a lot. It shouldn't just be about politics and ideology, but about business as well.

Most business leaders in the Arab world are Western-educated and understand that the only way to retain wealth is to put it to work to create more wealth.

They know that the oilfields are a finite resource that will someday be depleted, and they are eager to diversify their economies all over the world.

For More: http://news.investors.com/Article.aspx?id=603393&p=1&ibdbot=1

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Don't Demonize Arabs – Do Business With Them

These pro-American, pro-business Arabs want what we all want – the respect of the world. And what better way to confer respect than to do business with them, trade with them and give them a seat at the table of international economic power. That the G-8 has not a single Middle Eastern country included in its ranks, but has Russia as a member, can only be construed as an insult to the people of that region.

American businessmen should not hesitate to seek out business opportunities in the Middle East. My firm, Blackhawk Partners, was recently retained to act as financial adviser in a $300 million recapitalization of the biggest – and sole – water-bottling facility in Iraq. The company is run by Americans and has quickly become a dominant player in the market, well-positioned to become the largest producer of water in the Middle East.

For More: http://www.wnd.com/2009/01/86536/

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