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To: mojito

Wow.

Just wow.

First, this article, which I read every word, reminds me of another, very similar story from my own childhood.

I was around 12 years old. the books was “The Ugly American”.

I was such a naive lass, full of good thoughts and, of course, love.

I read that book and decided, right away, I would join The Peace Corps...yes I would.

Because the ugly Americans built a beautiful 6 lane highway through the jungles of Cambodia or some such. Whilst meanwhile little old hump-back Cambodian women were sweeping their floors with tiny little brooms which contributed more to their agony of the curving backbone.

They needed me, so my 12 year old self thought. They needed me to wrest away the small brooms and give those suffering woman a decent-sized brooms. They needed me to tear down the big unused highways through leafy jungles and provide trails for better traversing of the region.

The whole book was one big lie, something I didn’t discover until grown into my 20’s.

This is an example of a couple of evil liberals using people’s good intentions to their own advantage.

The bigger problem is they have this big platform...the NYTimes being one, to publish their lies.

Just awful....just awful.

Really good article.


6 posted on 06/07/2011 3:07:25 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/201102/freerepublic-ping-list-compilation.html-Freep Ping Blog post)
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Whilst meanwhile little old hump-back Cambodian women were sweeping their floors with tiny little brooms which contributed more to their agony of the curving backbone.

I remember a missionary telling about giving out full sized brooms so the African women wouldn't have to crouch to sweep. They held the new brooms so that the handle jutted up under their arms above their backs as they crouched to sweep with the new brooms.
7 posted on 06/07/2011 3:15:28 PM PDT by aruanan
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