Scott Atran: 'US foreign policy is set by people who've almost no insight into human welfare, {video

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Scott Atran: 'US foreign policy is set by people who've almost no insight into human welfare, {video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/video/2011/oct/31/scott-atran-us-foreign-policy-video

Scott Atran: 'US foreign policy is set by people who've almost no insight into human welfare, education, labour, desires or hopes' � video

Scott Atran looks at why foreign policy is failing and takes the example of a USAID project in Morocco that the bureaucrats don't know how to deal with

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Mon Oct-31-11 11:37 AM
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1. And it is not just foreign policy that is treated this way.

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Mon Oct-31-11 12:15 PM
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2. And no Morality or Respect for International Law, Either

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Mon Oct-31-11 04:20 PM
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3. no respect, no insight, no humanity-period.

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Mon Oct-31-11 04:58 PM
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4. Set by the US liberal economic agenda

and cannot be accomplished without the military stick...That's why the movement for reform begins at the Pentagon as well as Wall Street.

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Mon Oct-31-11 06:55 PM
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5. +1 if only 'Liberal' were better understood. Nt

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