| | Roger L. Simon: Confessions of a War Monger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Something one learns about when one does business in this region (MENA), the blockages, the frustrations, and the pervesion of opportunities which Westerners take for granted. |
 | | As the authors I recommended supra make clear - with none of the hysterical Islamphobe mumbo jumbo, half-truths or yellow perilish hysteria - the attraction to many for political Islam is the pre-packaged answers to the frustrations - frustrations which in the end are largely economic. |
 | | Now, my job is to invest risk capital - one thing one has to understand in my line of work is risk does not go away - one manages, one works to diversify a portfolio to reduce it, one works to address the unavoidable issues of operational risk, etc. but risk is with us. |
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