Kids know that "do as I say, not as I do" is a poor teaching method

This was inevitable, considering our government's contracting practices are scandal-ridden here in Canada -

Western governments that call Afghanistan a hotbed of corruption ought to mind the old maxim about glass houses and throwing stones, the mayor of Kandahar city suggests in a stern letter to Ottawa that accuses Canadian officials of playing fast and loose with taxpayer dollars.  In a letter to Canada's ambassador earlier this month, Ghulam Hayder Hamidi complained that Ottawa's contracting practices are contributing to the culture of malfeasance in Afghanistan. He also expressed similar concerns about the United States and Britain.

   "Your prime minister, (U.S.) President (Barack) Obama and the prime minister of England are complaining that we didn't clean the corruption in Afghanistan (and) they will stop helping," Hamidi said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.  "Who is doing the corruption? You are doing the corruption."

I expect they feel the same way when we lecture them on torture, cheating during elections, and the use of child soldiers.