Arab Economics 101: a Yemeni Solution, an Egyptian Solution, a Typical Arab Solution, a Herod Solution
A Yemeni passenger airplane crashed off the Comoros Islands, off the African coast. Only one young girl survived. The Yemenis have found a solution for not repeating this type of tragedy. Their solution is typically Arab of the kind Arab bureaucrats impose on almost any problem or crisis. It is instinctive, not taught at any colleges or universities.
Their solution looks like it was inspired by the Egyptian solution to the Swine Flu scare, but it was not: it is just the common approach of all Arab regimes to any situation. They have canceled all flights to the Comoros!
One bright spot: unlike the Egyptians who started to slaughter all 300+ thousand of their pigs (only the two-legged pigs), the Yemenis have not started to destroy all their airlanes, not yet. They canceled all flights to the Comoros.
Both steps, the Yemeni and the Egyptian, can be listed under the heading of Arab Economics 101. I tend to call it the “Herod” approach to problem-solving. It is like nothing I was taught in graduate school. But it is repeated every day across the Middle East by potentates and their bureaucrats who cannot think beyond their own tiny mental boxes. Interesting, n'est-ce pas?
As for the Nobel Prize….
Cheers
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