[wideawake]

Who cares. Everyone involved in the production of this article will be dead of AIDS in a few months anyway.

[fightinJAG]

"law of the strongest" -- DUH alert.

We are generous to the African nations and compassionate over the deep problems they face. That makes these editorials particularly disheartening.

The fact of the matter is we should help people because we can. But help has never brought loyalty; only knowledge, true understanding of the world can engender that.

[lodwick]

Shouldn't this be posted under Humor or Are You Kidding Me?

Shake yourself Africa - get a grip.

[American Soldier]

OK I see Morrocans, Tunisians...Wait a second, these people claim to represent African opinion but I do not see any quotes from the Hottentots. How snobbish of these Africans to exclude their Hottentot comrades. How in God's name can the U.S. shape a well-balanced foreign policy, full of nuance, subtlety and old-world charm and sophistication, without the input of that key demographic?

We must stop acting unilaterally and engage in robust consultations with the Hottentots before any further adventurism! Is anybody really convinced Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld are well-informed enough to go it alone? Hardly - we must be clued in by those tribesmen whose input we have previously failed to request. We can only hope they'll forgive our lack of consideration and agree to help us through the inevitable quagmire we face when the "street" erupts in the Middle East and Africa. Perhaps they will teach us the "root cause" of the world's hate for us.