by admin | Jun 26, 2011 |
Germany is an economic miracle. There’s no other way to describe it. Think of it. In the last ninety years, Germany lost two wars, sixteen per cent of their population was killed as a result of the wars, their industrial base was decimated, they became a pariah in the eyes of the world, their national identity questioned, and were occupied by the armies of the countries who had defeated them. Many of their leaders were tried, convicted, and either executed or imprisoned. They were a pawn of the cold war and lived as a divided county for thirty years and then endured the pains of unification. And yet…. Germany is number fourteen in population at...
by admin | May 19, 2007 |
These words uttered by General Douglas McArthur as he left Corregidor for Australia in 1941 shaped his place in history as well as the strategy of the Pacific Command and his own behavior for the next three years. It also pretty much sums up what most Americans know about the Republic of the Philippines today. I first visited Manila almost exactly twenty years ago as I was surveying possible new locations to plant the my company’s flag in Asia. My mind was pretty much made up as I left the doors of the worst airport I’d seen in Asia and entered what Dante might have called the gates of hell. It surely had the same climatic conditions, and the sights,...
