" Developing’ countries must be prevented from developing at all costs because, if they do, then who will the so-called “developed” world compare itself to and define itself against? If developing countries are truly allowed to develop, where will the ‘developed’ world steal its resources from? Yet, the price of preventing these countries from being truly independent from the iron fist of the superpowers is costly. "

― Louis Yako , Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile