Here's my take on the Peace Corps and it's negative effects I personally witnessed. You have people living in abject poverty out in the bush somewhere and I've never seen such happy people, at least in Africa. Enter the Peace Corps with well intentioned motives and they tell these people how much better they can be if they get involved in the political process (by US standards which ids naive to the extreme) then they come to the realization of how poor & wretched they really are. Enter the liberals and marxists expousing class envy, and how bad us "capitalists" are and bingo you have a communist revolution and the mayhem we had thoroughout the third world during the Cold War and proxy wars. The Peace Corps is a noble endeavor, but geopolitical realities far outweighed it's benefits--in my opinion, that's all. jorge
