[shhrubbery!]

Contrary to the marketing, many PC vols have been arrogant, stand-offish, reluctant to actually get their hands dirty, and ended up alienating the natives who, while technologically primitive, know a phoney when they see one.

My elderly parents, fervent Democrats, volunteered for the Peace Corps in their retirement. What a fiasco. While they were terribly earnest folks, neither of them had any skills whatsoever that were useful in the Latin American country to which they were sent.

Not only that, but they cost the U.S. taxpayer mucho $$$ for their support, which included their hospitalization for parisitic disease, which they of course contracted in that steaming tropical country.

Every PC volunteer I have ever met has been either a hopelessly naive liberal college kid or elderly Dim; or the type you've described.

[tet68]

I knew a peace corp volunteer once , she was sent to Jimaka to teach the folks how to make tye dyed tee shirts, she came back by way of Katmandu and India.

Not only does John "Blanche" Kerry want your sons and daughters to go to god forsaken rat holes, he wants them to go unarmed and depend on "the kindness of strangers".