Posted on 08/29/2004 11:54:06 AM PDT by UnklGene
Vile? You want to discuss "vile"? Sit back, then, and let's discuss recent African history, shall we Sparky????
give me what you've got then. Remember I don't deny that terrible things, the worst things imaginable, have happened in Africa. I'm a white African. My father was imprisoned in the infamous Nyayo House torture dungeons in Kenya by dictator Daniel arap Moi. I weep for the continent I love. But I believe there are many, many good people on it, and your proposal of wholescale extermination is offensive. Anyway, if you can give me a cogent explanation for your final solution for the African problem, I will be happy to hear it.
It may be your home, but Africa has been a s**thole of genocide and tribal atrocities for a long, LONG time. Uganda, Somalia, Rwanda, Sudan.........good God, man, how many examples of mass butchery and moral emptiness and darkness do you need ????
I am absolutely, positively convinced that the world would be a far better place if the continent of Africa.....and most of the middle east.........were totally depopulated. It won't happen in my lifetime, but these are peoples who have given ZIP to mankind except misery and heartache (especially to each other).
Defend it all you will......but I'll never set foot in that sewer. As poorly as you obviously think of me for my opinion, just look around your lovely continent at the two legged animals who live there, and just think of the horrors they have inflicted on each other for hundreds of years. THEN come talk to me, sport.
Scoop was written with Abyssinia in mind. The dogs of war includes a capital city of Clarence, which just happens to have been the former name of EG's capital. And it begins with a massive discovery of mineral wealth.
I stand corrected -- you are, of course, quite right.
The details in the story about Obiang and his family and the strange goings on in the upper echelons of eq's government are still strikingly similar to some of the descriptions of the jackson family in Waugh's novels.
COPPER
franco wasn't the recognized leader of spain. he was commanding an invading army. indeed, the republican gov't was the official one during the civil war.
"It may be your home, but Africa has been a s**thole of genocide and tribal atrocities for a long, LONG time. Uganda, Somalia, Rwanda, Sudan.........good God, man, how many examples of mass butchery and moral emptiness and darkness do you need ???? "
or you could say...
It may be your home, but Europe has been a s**thole of genocide and tribal atrocities for a long, LONG time. Germany, USSR, the Ottoman Empire, Ireland.........good God, man, how many examples of mass butchery and moral emptiness and darkness do you need ????
Apparently we needed one more example of mass butchery and moral emptiness and darkness, because then you give us this:
"I am absolutely, positively convinced that the world would be a far better place if the continent of Africa.....and most of the middle east.........were totally depopulated. It won't happen in my lifetime, but these are peoples who have given ZIP to mankind except misery and heartache (especially to each other)."
When you are qualified to denounce moral emptiness, come talk to me then, sport.
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