Financing Failure: How Foreign Aid is Mismanaged By Nicholas M. Guariglia

Who can explain the logic of first propping up a seemingly friendly autocrat, then disregarding the autocrat’s disloyalty, only to end this trifecta by subsidizing it all along? Take for example the late Yasser Arafat, whose decades of murdering diplomats and overseeing hit-squads was legitimized overnight by overt international assistance. Somewhere along the line, it was deemed that any hypothetical Palestinian state required the presence of an imposing “strongman,” someone to keep the apparently crazier folk down. (So who better than a Jordanian to do it?)

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