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- okayokayokay, on 06/28/2009, -2/+31TED = intelligence booster.
- CrimsonBlur, on 06/29/2009, -0/+17This is an excellent talk. Man I love TED. So many great points and he plainly lays out the details of execution.
One thing that makes it so hard for the Superpowers is our lack of understand of true long-term projects. Over time we have become accustomed to quick results, everything in our world happens fast. We rarely have to think in terms of decades, even the largest projects take a year or two unless they run into major setbacks (which usually arise because of the size and length of the project and people involved unwilling to see things through on that scale). We tend to think that our advances in technology have made these things so much easier that you just "go and do it," but it's just not that simple.
The genius of his approach is that yes, it is a long-term strategy, but there are specific goals along the way and a framework for how they need to be done. As he says as it is now nation rebuilding is pretty schizophrenic, hopefully in the future the United States will take this kind of approach instead of the boondoggle that comes out of conflicts like Iraq. - TEDChris, on 06/28/2009, -2/+19Amazed to see Paul Collier's lecture being upvoted at digg. It's not exactly light entertainment. But the ideas here are incredibly important. (Our current practice of pumping large amounts of short-term aid directly into fragile, inexperienced, potentially-corrupt regimes clearly does not work.)
- writeb, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6I half expected the talk to be about the US before reading the synopsis....
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5I fear that what the presenter is failing to grasp is that it is not MEANT to work. It is only meant to continue the legacies of rich, corrupt buggers who want to keep their share of the pie and/or expand it. A transparent and ultimately "clean" as he put it, government, means that they must relinquish control and/or money which is counter to their agendas.
One must only look into the current running of things in Government and Large Enterprise to see the type of agendas I speak of. There is no place in those circles to run "clean" governments. Not without sacrificing vast, concentrated financial wealth. - yocouchdigga, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5well said.
- TEDChris, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3If you don't have time to watch the talk, click the red "interactive transcript" link on top right of page (and clicking any phrase there will take you to that moment in the talk.)
- INTERNETMASTER, on 06/29/2009, -1/+4wow, he makes a lot of sense
- Barackalypse, on 06/29/2009, -1/+4The problem is one side rarely gains the upper hand in the conflict and the situation isn't helped any when busybody global peacekeeping forces intervene to ensure there isn't a winner. When there isn't a winner the focus shifts to trying to control the Government, because whoever control it decides who gets rich and who gets oppressed (in effect the Government becomes a proxy agent in continuing whatever conflict started the problem, often longtime tribal or religious rivalries as evidenced in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively).
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -2/+4here comes the neighborhood.
- SurfingMonkey, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Great ideas, but he needs to add another realism. The "donors" have their own interests, to make it work, they need to stop thinking and acting as self righteous people, and be honest about it.
- sulthernao, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2It's ironic (not really) that our under the radar, CIA backed nation building schemes have more often than not come back to bite us in the ass.
- thredden, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2wow you remind me of all those submissions about how the internet is rewiring our brain. you know the ones that talk about how we perceive things in shorter and shorter intervals?
- solid12345, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Biggest problem for war-torn nations is usually when no one side wins. An armistice or truce is the worst thing that can happen as it is only delaying inevitable re-conflict.
Case in point, Israel and the Palestinians keep fighting forever yet Israel has reached a peace deal with Egypt and Jordan who are more of a threat militarily. They worked out their differences on the battlefield and traded tangible land for recognition.
World War I, the Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles but they were never truly defeated militarily, it was more of a political surrender and thus we saw the rise of Nazi Germany, only when the German army were completely vanquished was peace possible.
India and Pakistan fighting over Kashmir, don't need to go on about that one
Don't even get me started on the Balkans. - matrixbandit, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2lol nice. The people digging you down probably don't realize you are making a play on the phrase "There goes the neighborhood"
- , on 06/29/2009, -0/+1Please go kill yourself.
- MaskedSlacker, on 06/29/2009, -1/+2Congratulations on restating his summary of the problem, and entirely missing his point.
- Sagags, on 06/29/2009, -1/+2if its anything like rebuilding a engine we will be quite greasy when done.
- DulcetTone, on 06/29/2009, -1/+2TED used to be more interesting when it was a scarce commodity.
- prednisonedosag, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1nice info
- christoast, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1If that's really you. You're my hero.
- edebolt, on 06/29/2009, -2/+2new rules for a boring experience
- DirtyVicar, on 06/29/2009, -2/+2TED: Former United Airlines brand
- Persian5Life, on 06/29/2009, -2/+1Iranians pay attention.
- Red1Delta, on 06/29/2009, -8/+3I'll be honest, I watched for about two minutes before closing the tab.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -12/+0http://www.1stlinkdirectory.com/
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