The United States-along with most other developed nations-has a mutually self-destructive relationship with underdeveloped countries.
Developed countries, often under the guise of friendship, use developing nations as testing grounds for medical procedures, education agendas, and manipulative social experiments-practices that are adopted at home only after their usefulness is tested abroad.
On an even darker note, supposedly democratic nations prop up Third World dictators and tyrants to preserve their access to an involuntary population of guinea pigs. And sometimes America and other countries experiment on these unstable nations with new weapons and military technology-particularly in the arena of intercity fighting.
On the other side of this devil's bargain, US citizens are often unable to "buy American" and must sacrifice high-quality domestic products for short-term savings from imported goods. Rigorously tested changes to social dynamics reduce personal freedoms and privacy, slowly stripping away individual rights.
The root cause of such acts is that we have become a culture manipulated by the exclusive percent-individuals and groups who are chasing a quick and high return on investment. Members of the exclusive percent culture benefit in both developed and underdeveloped nations, while ordinary citizens of both pay the price.
About the Author: Dr. Abdo A. Husseiny's training as an engineering physicist and nuclear engineer provided the starting point for a rich and varied career, moving him into the world of machine operability and reliability and then into human/machine cohabitation, energy and water resources, and social dynamics.
Dr. Husseiny's education includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Carnegie Mellon University, and Iowa State University.
In the corporate world, Husseiny interned at Brown Boverie, took on managerial responsibilities at the Science Applications International Corporation, and was a chief executive officer for Technology International Incorporated, Virginia. He consults for ITT and performs philanthropic work as the chief executive officer of the Dr. Zeinab Sabri Memorial Foundation.
Dr. Husseiny is the coauthor of Knowledge-Based Economy: A Road Map and the translator of Alexandria: Amidst Fragrant History and Saffron Soil.
