Bill, one truth I have found to exist after dealing with the whole spectrum of people types is that people who damage others are cowards.
These types may at times appear to be fearless and show fearsome moves that are not bluffs. Once understood, protection is easy to obtain.
As for the Bumbat resources in Mongolia, my vision is that of a bottom up mentality in that rather than high level, or connected, government persons obtain its riches, that those citizens of Mongolia at the very bottom of society obtain help.
The controlling elite have too much, the middle class does not need another library or even better health care when those at the bottom have no access to education or medicine.
To me Bumbat should stay frozen until its use can be deemed "clean".
The tv/movie character La Femme Nikita says that their goal is just, but their means are ruthless. Thru history, collateral damage has always happened, sometimes being innocents unaware of the presents of a wrong needing attention, and sometimes ones who have done no wrong, but trusted others that have deceived them. Associations with others must be viewed in more ways that what is usually done, if one only obtains what makes one confortable, then that not understood can hide things such as collateral damage awaiting.
Making friends can be counter productive when those are involved in the areas of business and commerce one chooses to engage. Keep friends seperate, then collateral damage can be a detached part of doing business, and making choices will not be hampered.
<<I have seen too many half vast plans come a cropper.>>
As with beauty, success is in the eyes of the beholder.
Doug |