To: Valin; *AfricaWatch
I drew the conclusion a while ago that Africa is just a lost cause. They're rapidly sliding back to the state they were in before colonization, and perhaps that's just the natural order of things.
Our only interest is keeping the Chi-coms out of that continent. Beyond that, just ignore it.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
5 posted on
02/22/2004 8:00:49 AM PST by
End Times Sentinel
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" –Thomas Paine)
To: Owl_Eagle
I drew the conclusion a while ago that Africa is just a lost cause. So did I. And I don't think that they are like us, in any way at all. They are at a different, and lower, level of civilization.
To: Owl_Eagle
I drew the conclusion a while ago that Africa is just a lost cause. They're rapidly sliding back to the state they were in before colonization, and perhaps that's just the natural order of things.
I dunno. Most of the tribes that were conquered by the Euros in sub-saharan Africa in the 1800s were at the same level of civilisation as the Germanics and Slavics and Celtics had been, in varying levels, up to 800 AD, so, if civilisation could work on those, why not on these?
Africa's problems are also because of the Aid we give them which goes straight ot the pockets of the big man. It's other problem is that it's nations are still drawn according to colonial borders which cut across tribal lines leading to situations akin to the Poles being divided by Prussia, Russia and Austria or the Kurds being divided by Turkey Iraq and Iran.
26 posted on
02/23/2004 5:45:08 AM PST by
Cronos
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