on account of my aged parents' need for help--it is interesting to note that in today's "Lidove Noviny", a newspaper in the Czech Republic, there is a story about how the USA ambassador has been pressuring Czech politicians, lobbying on behalf of American pharmaceutical companies.
I.e., they want high prices (like they get here at home)....
The Czech journalist (correctly) describes it as hypocrisy because the American diplomat has been lecturing about ethics and corruption.
This is very funny---even if simultaneously sad and disgusting.....
PS
A more careful reading of this article produces several other nuggets:
The so-called ethical expert offers the advice that (in effect) something is wrong
if it would embarrass you to read about it on the pages of the Washington Post!
Obviously, many immoral activities of the US government are routinely reported on the pages of USA newspapers in language which distracts from the ugly reality.
The Washington Post hardly provides any kind of real ethical or moral guidance!
Moreover, the individual in question is the former Advisor to Barack Obama for "ethics"!
Laughable and sad!
Judge a man by his results! (Thus spoke Socrates.) By that measure, given Obama's behavior, this advisor is incompetent.
(Caveat: About which matters did the man advise Obama? I'd need details to fully assert the above claim without qualification. Nonetheless, prima facie, it would seem yet another emperor (or "expert") has no clothes!)
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