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To: Cicero

No Time fan I, however, it’d be hard to find a more corrupt place to do business than Indonesia (from my experience.)


11 posted on 09/10/2007 10:29:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yes, Indonesia is a typical third-world kleptocracy, although I believe many countries are worse. If you want to do business with them, you have to play their game.

But since Time so regularly violates the principles of fundamental truth and fairness, I can’t get too worked up about their plight. I would imagine they went after Suharto not because he was corrupt—not uncommon in most parts of the world—but because he was strongly anti-Communist and did much to reverse the red tide in Asia. Somehow they only get indignant about “right-wing” dictators.

Pinochet bad, Castro good. Suharto bad, Chavez good.


12 posted on 09/10/2007 12:38:01 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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