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After a 30 year career as an expatriate employee, 10 years for a US company and 20 for a French company, spending time in many countries, including the mid-East and Asia, I learned that a family with no material wealth who live in a yurt in the Takla Makan Desert under a severe Communist regime can be as wildly happy as millionaires who live in villas in Cannes or mansions in Beverly Hills. It is neither the government, nor the wealth that is the key to happiness.
I lament that people/governments are not terribly understanding. Once they make up their minds about something/someone, they rarely will stand back, reconsider, and alter their thinking. Since the press has little of interest to report on the progress of the "war", they have been doing many intereviews with people/agencies who are assisting in providing goods and services in Iraq and elsewhere. It is reassuring to note the tremendous amount of compassion exhibited by people from many countries who work behind the scenes--People who do this work out of compassion--not material reward
Lets hope that the government leaders have some productive negotiations going on behind the scenes that will bring a less destructive conclusion to this business. I am cynical because I sense the strong hand of big corporate interests.
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