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An Eye on the Gulf: Forward Vision by Mike Vine

In Uncategorized on August 4, 2007 at 2:15 am

South Carolina is destined to be a free and prosperous country. With four million of the best people on earth our future looks bright.

No, South Carolina doesn’t have oil. That’s what super tankers are for.

When it comes to governments, small is better in more ways than one.

An Eye on the Gulf | Aug 02nd 2007

Take a close look at the Persian Gulf. Which states are growing, and which are failing? What I’ve noticed is that the small city-states are outpacing the large nation-states in most regards. Kuwait, Bahrain, Doha, Abu Dhabi, and glistening Dubai have all managed to pursue quasi-free market policies and allow relatively open societies while neighbors such as Iran wallow in theocratic authoritarianism. Full disclosure: this discussion has to be couched in the reality that no government in the Middle East is close to ‘limited.’ The city-states praised herein practice extreme state capitalism. Of course, in this regard they are not that different than the self-righteous Western governments.

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