If someone comes into your house, and says ‘this color is awful and you need to change the shade’ and goes on and on, you’d say ‘fine, don’t come back’… No matter how crappy it is, the country does not want to be treated like a basket-case.
Ben Barber, the former lead writer of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) newspaper and former journalist, in an interview with Yahoo News this week, regarding American pro-democracy programs abroad