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Why is African
violence ignored?
New York Daily News ^
| 4-10-2003
| Stanley Crouch
Posted on 04/10/2003 10:29:37 PM PDT by jocon307
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:30:56 PM PDT
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To: jocon307
$$$$$$$$$... that's why they're ignored.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:33:42 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: jocon307
I hate to say this, but there's a very good reason the US doesn't ever want to intervene militarily in Africa.
AIDS.
It's a well-known fact that servicemen like their fun. In Africa, that "fun" is likely to be infected. The US government is well aware that the Cuban war in Angola resulted in most of the soldiers sent there being infected by prostitutes. Thus Castro quarantined them when they returned. In the US, the ACLU would never allow a quarantine.
Which is why you won't see US troops in sub-Saharan Africa any time soon.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:34:38 PM PDT
by
Kenno
To: Kenno
That never occured to me. Scary stuff. Perhaps the military should teach the soldiers to keep it in their pants. Besides AIDS, you also have illegitimate children (Vietnam),etc. I didn't know that about Cuba though.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:38:08 PM PDT
by
cyborg
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To: gcochran
If you are right, that's worse than not going because there's no dollars in it or because of AIDS. Saddam was a dictator and we went into Iraq because he alleged had weapons of mass destruction and liberate the Iraqi people. However, is this example of what's going in Africa any better than Iraq? It is WORSE.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:48:28 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Kenno
Nope. There are three real reasons.
(1) There aren't any countries there that are an effective threat to the United States - unlike Iraq.
(2) There is no good economic benefit for intervening - unlike Iraq.
(3) The only effective solution in most of those places involves shooting a few thousand black folks. Which no Republican administration would dare to do. And the Democrats aren't interested in military power projection.
So the Africans are screwed unless they solve their own problems.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:49:08 PM PDT
by
dark_lord
To: cyborg
I suspect there are at least two (and probably more) reasons; 1. Most of Africa doesn't have weapons of mass destruction and while they kill each other, they don't pose a threat to the West. 2. They don't have abundant oil. Sadly, the Mugabe's of Africa seem to have free reign.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:49:48 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: gcochran
Yep, I'm afraid you're right. Too bad. Isn't Africa considered France's sphere of influence? That could explain a lot, also. The trouble is, the only way to prevent the Africans from slaughtering each other is to colonize them, and run them ourselves. Aid in the form of money is wasted or stolen, food is stolen and sold for profit, etc., and warlords rule the day. A sick, sad situation. I feel sorry for them, but there's little we can do for those who will not help themselves.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:49:50 PM PDT
by
jim35
To: umgud
People like Mugabe rule over their people with an iron fist. It's the rank and file who suffer and are trapped. I believe that many Africans do want to help themselves, but the government kills, starves, rapes their children if they don't do what they say. It's sad that governments need to be threatened to get their attention.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:55:17 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: jocon307
Africa is not a vital geopolitical interest. It will be in the future when China has bases on the Atlantic coast, but not until then. Whatever happens in Africa simply does not affect much of the rest of the world, and that is why it is ignored. This might not be a very moral reason, but it is reality.
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posted on
04/10/2003 10:57:20 PM PDT
by
remitrom
To: jocon307
Good column.
To: Kenno
Well, we kind of have our hands full at the moment. What is it we are supposed to do anyway? Most of their problems don't require a military solution.
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:08:57 PM PDT
by
RJayneJ
To: dark_lord
So the Africans are screwed unless they solve their own problems.Fancy that! Expecting a country and a people to solve their own (all too often self-made) problems. What is the world coming to?
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:11:11 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it, but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: cyborg
and they don't pose a threat with WMD...
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:13:12 PM PDT
by
marajade
To: RJayneJ
Exactly.
I'm not sure the point of this article is that nothing is being done by the US, France, or whomever else from the outside, it's that there is no outcry about the attrocities.
And the reason is simple. Racism. Liberal white racism. And liberal black embarrasment that their liberal white friends are racists, who honestly believe that civilized behavior must be demanded of whites, but cannot be expected of blacks. Ugandan President Museveni has discussed this phenomenon at length several times, though he's enough of a statesman to avoid the "r" word, as well as the "l" word.
To: RJayneJ
Where did you get the impression I was calling for one? I was merely explaining why we're not likely to intervene there in the near future even if a good reason does come up.
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:25:39 PM PDT
by
Kenno
To: TheHeterodoxConservative
Africa is not civilized, their educational system is non-existent, they have nothing of value, and every possible disease and problem imaginable. Frankly the only thing we should do to Africans is tell them (1) you are morons for living in Africa and (2) move.
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:27:52 PM PDT
by
Naspino
To: Naspino
Frankly the only thing we should do to Africans is tell them (1) you are morons for living in Africa and (2) move. Hopefully you're not suggesting they move here.
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:31:30 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
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