August 2009 Archives

Make Way

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I occasionally bump into public sector decision-makers, almost always discussing issues such as 'lack of development' and 'bureaucracy,' with them concluding 'we are unable to work, there is nothing we can do about it.'

There is actually.

Get out of the way and let's have someone with some backbone assume your position.

It's not personal. It's business.

August 2nd

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As the state wrangles over Iraqi UN compensation payments, rising corruption, unemployment, visa trafficking, electricity and water dilemmas, and a myriad of other usual problems, let us look back at August 2nd, the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait (that's right Mr. Kuwait Government, the Iraqi invasion and occupation, not the 'Baathist' invasion, not the 'Saddamist' occupation - you can't rewrite history).

There is nothing to say really. It's all been said elsewhere and it's all been said in the following article 'A Soldier's Diary: A Kuwaiti Volunteer Looks Back at 'Liberation' - you'll know what we went through and how we feel about Kuwait in its current incarnation.