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To: cooldog
The military and the State Department are both very concerned about Africa, as should all Americans. We spend an increasing amount of time studying Africa in our Military Schools, especially our War Colleges for senior officers. Many of us believe it is the follow-on site to the Middle East for international problems and concerns. Right now it is a breeding ground for both disease (especially AIDS related), and anarchism.

So sad. But what can or should be done about it is a whole different question. In many cases it is a damned if you do and a damned if you don't equation. Are we uncaring? Or are we imperialists?

Those who fantasize about their African roots as they relate to the great culture of the continent are living in a fantasy land. But I understand wanting to connect with and intellectually defend one's ancestrial homeland--even if you didn't know any of these ancesters. It is natural to do so, and keeps our lives interesting, whether we are Scots, Germans, Koreans, Tutu, or some mix of the above and more.

But those who make fun of and ignore the issues surrounding Africa are living in even a greater, and more dangerous, fantasy. They are the same people who were totally surprised by the export of radical Islam and terrorism from the Saudi Penisula.

One man's thoughts anyway.


16 posted on 12/26/2003 6:36:17 AM PST by Proud Legions
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To: Proud Legions
One man's thoughts anyway.

And well-stated thoughts they are. We ignore the plight of Africa at our peril

34 posted on 12/26/2003 8:16:16 AM PST by centurion316
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To: Proud Legions
Well, if you believe in such a thing as universal truth, what the Africans need is a healthy dose of it, whether from a white, black, male, female, alive or dead person. We can ring our hands and worry self-consciously about "imperialism"--a habit borne of a (socialist, anti-rationality) university education. Or we could send our best Western scholars there to teach them John Locke, the Constitution, Aristotle, Ludwig Von Mises, Ayn Rand, Henry Hazlitt, etc. No one would think of that though. We live in an irrational time.
58 posted on 12/27/2003 1:46:08 AM PST by The Westerner
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