by Abou-Gor » Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:29 pm
LTO wrote:Hmmm. How many foreign jounalists have been assassinated here, or even arrested and expelled?
He's threatened a few. There was also that Canadian guy in Siem Reap that left his hotel room in the morning and was found murdered in a symbolic ritualistic entrance of Angkor Wat. Unless you believe the trees really stole his air.
Cambodia is indeed a dirty little country of 15 mil, that no one cares about except to make money from. Including its leaders. Someone was asking why the West keeps investing here - to make money of course. Or don't you know the aid game? Every dollar the US gives, it gets aprox 1.3 dollars back. Well, somebody's got to show them how to do it, and experts (lol) don't come cheap.
Speaking, as he seems to do, of Cambodia as a whole, I have met people on occasion who I would not categorize as "playing the game", but what real choice do they have of behaving any different? What real choice does anyone ever have, anywhere? There have always been dissenters of the status quo. Plato writes about them in the Republic over 2000 years ago, when things were a lot smaller and immensely freer in some ways.
[quote="LTO"]Hmmm. How many foreign jounalists have been assassinated here, or even arrested and expelled?[/quote]
He's threatened a few. There was also that Canadian guy in Siem Reap that left his hotel room in the morning and was found murdered in a symbolic ritualistic entrance of Angkor Wat. Unless you believe the trees really stole his air.
Cambodia is indeed a dirty little country of 15 mil, that no one cares about except to make money from. Including its leaders. Someone was asking why the West keeps investing here - to make money of course. Or don't you know the aid game? Every dollar the US gives, it gets aprox 1.3 dollars back. Well, somebody's got to show them how to do it, and experts (lol) don't come cheap.
Speaking, as he seems to do, of Cambodia as a whole, I have met people on occasion who I would not categorize as "playing the game", but what real choice do they have of behaving any different? What real choice does anyone ever have, anywhere? There have always been dissenters of the status quo. Plato writes about them in the Republic over 2000 years ago, when things were a lot smaller and immensely freer in some ways.