Afghanistan

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Actually, I was thinking, the problem is that they've had a variety of incompetant govenrments, periods of anarchy and civil war, and occasional religious nutter dictatorships. What they need is a century of a single, solid dictatorship (such as India had under British Colonial rule) to get them used to the idea of obeying the government. Said dictatorship would foster education and gradually - over a few generations - introduce democracy.<snip>

... and get them used to corporations reaping (or raping) the countryside for natural resources.

Oh look, here come some Chinese men dressed in business suits.
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