Latin, in regards to the Philippines you are absolutely correct! Oh, and I ran into the corruption every trip I made there.

But a victim? Really? I refused early on to adapt to "the game." You see, in my department and in my area of responsibility we played by my rules. If you had a position of responsibility and you used that power to wheel and deal, and the Filipinos love to do that, you ended up getting demoted or fired. It really doesn't take much to figure out who the wannabe "big shots" are or as I called them "the bureaucrat Warlords"

Not a victim at all but rather a guy that always thought he could make a difference....