CEO of Home Essentials meets RA at private cocktail

Chris Exline, CEO of a company called Home Essentials, gave a rousing talk to Republicans Abroad in Hong Kong today. Home Essentials is the world's largest furniture rental company and Chris came to talk with RA about his company's work in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chris started with a dynamic and straightforward assessment of what has been happening in these countries, and how the removal of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban have improved people's lives. Chris' observations on the ground and his general experiences were nothing like the negativity that we see in the general media. As someone who has been to these countries, and run a commercial enterprise successfully in these coutnries, his observations clearly dispelled the idea that what has happened in these countries is all bad. Of particular note was the fundamental observation that the Afghanis and Iraqis now have pluralistic representative democracies for the first time in their respective histories.

Thank you Chris for giving such an interesting speach, it was arguably the most interesting and entertaining talks for RA this year. Please take a look at home essential's business at

http://www.homeessentials.org/