Comments on: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man http://www.ryananddebi.com/2007/06/24/new-review-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/ Public journal, travelogue, book reviews, and other stuff... (mostly written by Ryan) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ryan2 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2007/06/24/new-review-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/comment-page-1/#comment-1964 ryan2 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:05:17 +0000 http://genesoc.com/blog1/?p=967#comment-1964 Yeah, I remember that part of the book. You make a good point - I would have dumped him as as a trainer at that point myself. Thanks for the comment! Ryan Yeah, I remember that part of the book. You make a good point - I would have dumped him as as a trainer at that point myself.

Thanks for the comment!

Ryan

]]> By: D. Hodgie http://www.ryananddebi.com/2007/06/24/new-review-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/comment-page-1/#comment-1961 D. Hodgie Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:50:12 +0000 http://genesoc.com/blog1/?p=967#comment-1961 Wow, I totally agree. I believe he gives too much credit to this alleged oversimplified devious plan of these contractors in collusion with the government. So much of what goes on is probably more about each contractor's self interest. Isn't it in their best interest to claim that there will be economic expansion and success from your project done in a third world country if it guarantee's that they will get the contract. I don't think this neccesarily ties in to the allegation that our country is using these projects to strengthen its grip over foreign countries. Yes there were many covert actions that occured during the cold war in an effort to fight communism. I am sure that some of the manipulation was not just altruistic and in hopes of making the world a better place. I just don't think it is as simple as Perkins describes it. More specifically, I found actual discrepencies that prevented me from accepting this book as fact. I am sure you came across hundreds of these little questions as well. One in particular, for instance when he is being trained by the older woman in the beginning, he says something about he justified what he would do by the fact that he will expose all of this evil later from the inside. He goes so far as to say that he actually ran this by the woman he was training and she told him it would be a bad idea. Not only that she says something to the effect of once you are in you are in. In a real life scenario, neither persons action in this tail seems reasonable. IF I were training someone and they said " I am just learning so I can bring it down from the inside", that would be the end of the training. Even if this really was his intention at the time, why would he tell the woman that? It doesn't add up. Basically in every "cloak and dagger" tale, I found many things that were hard to swallow. I believe Mr. Perkin's book belongs on the fiction rack. He should stick to writing about shamanism!!! Wow, I totally agree. I believe he gives too much credit to this alleged oversimplified devious plan of these contractors in collusion with the government. So much of what goes on is probably more about each contractor’s self interest. Isn’t it in their best interest to claim that there will be economic expansion and success from your project done in a third world country if it guarantee’s that they will get the contract. I don’t think this neccesarily ties in to the allegation that our country is using these projects to strengthen its grip over foreign countries. Yes there were many covert actions that occured during the cold war in an effort to fight communism. I am sure that some of the manipulation was not just altruistic and in hopes of making the world a better place. I just don’t think it is as simple as Perkins describes it. More specifically, I found actual discrepencies that prevented me from accepting this book as fact. I am sure you came across hundreds of these little questions as well. One in particular, for instance when he is being trained by the older woman in the beginning, he says something about he justified what he would do by the fact that he will expose all of this evil later from the inside. He goes so far as to say that he actually ran this by the woman he was training and she told him it would be a bad idea. Not only that she says something to the effect of once you are in you are in. In a real life scenario, neither persons action in this tail seems reasonable. IF I were training someone and they said ” I am just learning so I can bring it down from the inside”, that would be the end of the training. Even if this really was his intention at the time, why would he tell the woman that? It doesn’t add up. Basically in every “cloak and dagger” tale, I found many things that were hard to swallow. I believe Mr. Perkin’s book belongs on the fiction rack. He should stick to writing about shamanism!!!

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