Posted on 06/13/2004 3:07:43 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Both are bad systems. Cuba, China and Vietnam all played a big role in Southern Africa, and the politics we see there today.
exactly!
The UN does not even want to intervene today in Nigeria or Sudan, they are not welcome in Africa, as stated by the new African Union. I'll join you in the prayer though, there has been such misery brought on by evil dictators.
The Chinese may come in to fill the vacuum and then all bets are off.
I agree.
I'll check back in later.
Yeah and I have to go to work *lol*
You do realize that quite a few German jews fled to Namibia and other African nations to escape the Nazis.
Making special laws limiting activities that everyone else is allowed to do, and targeting them at certain races.
Yup. The only difference between them and the US is that we pass the same laws for everyone but only enforce them against some. The results are the same.
Sporadic fighting followed over the next 14 years without any readily discernible trend, the Portugese being the common enemy but the three independence movements not infrequently fighting amongst themselves. The MPLA was generally supported by the USSR, the FNLA by the USA, and the UNITA by the Chinese...Some 300,000 whites left the country and by the time independence was formally granted on 11 September Angola was in a state of total disorder; on 7 August the FNLA had quit the January coalition, the UNITA following on 12 August. Already the MPLA had started to consolidate, however, with the arrival of Cuban and Soviet advisers from April. The scene was fully set for the Angolan Civil War, succeeding a costly civil war.
-Warfare Of The 20th Century: Armed Conflicts Outside of the Two World Wars, pgs. 156-158,
-by Christopher Chant.
And we all know how that sorted itself out, now don't we?
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