Many Africans see U.S. as distant savior

Kansas City Star ^ | 2/21/2005 | BRYAN MEALER

[Southack]

[srm913]

Ummm...
Maybe because we ARE???

[MadIvan]

The real mission in Africa is killing off Mugabe.

Regards, Ivan

[Southack]

"The real mission in Africa is killing off Mugabe."

Hear, hear!

[TheForceOfOne]

Bring the appreciative ones over through proper immigration and send the unappreciative ones here back.

[clee1]

Until the people living there decide that they wish to be free, democratic, and willingly enter the 21st Century, all our efforts on the African continent are doomed to failure from the start.

[Mears]

Message to Africa:

CLEAN YOUR OWN HOUSE!

[Brian328i]

Ditto, we'll pull someone out of office their, insert someone and then we find ourselves at a later date pulling that person out to insert a new person, just a continuous duty.

[oh8eleven]

Thank you. "God saves those who save themselves."

[xm177e2]

Until the people living there decide that they wish to be free, democratic, and willingly enter the 21st Century, all our efforts on the African continent are doomed to failure from the start.

Do you think Africans have not shown this?

There were people who stood in line for days in the attempt to vote Mugabe out of office, without lots of food/water, and under threat of violence by Mugabe supporters.

[GSlob]

At his age of 80(?) it might be too late: he's not going to last much longer anyway.

[clee1]

Sorry, but a vote doesn't mean very much in some cases. Especially when the people counting the votes are more interested in personal power over service to their country.

Before a vote becomes meaningful, the tyrants MUST overthrown and put to death.

[clee1]

And, you can apply that same prescription to our homegrown, would-be tyrants.

[mrsmel]

Until the people living there decide that they wish to be free, democratic, and willingly enter the 21st Century, all our efforts on the African continent are doomed to failure from the start

And until those goals are met,sending them weapons would be the WORSE thing we could do-anyhow,when it comes to America,no good deed goes unpunished-we'd end being blamed for neo-colonialism or something.

[clee1]

Exactly right.

American motives, even when pure, are ALWAYS suspect in the 3rd world crapholes.

[mrsmel]

Before a vote becomes meaningful, the tyrants MUST overthrown and put to death.

Yes, and before they could worry about accomplishing a little thing like that,they had to first make sure to kill or run out of the country the farmers who were producing the food for the people. Now Mugabe's cronies and family have the land,they even take it away from the people they were supposedly killing the farmers to give it to,nothing is produced,and the country is in famine.

And on top of that, Mugabe has the audacity to demand that the West send food and aid.

[xm177e2]

Sorry, but a vote doesn't mean very much in some cases

I thought you wanted to see that Africans wanted to be free. If they were all Free, they wouldn't need American help, would they?

[clee1]

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.

EVERYBODY wants to be free - too few are willing to FIGHT for their freedom. It is too easy to let Uncle Sam do it for them.

BULLSQUEEZE!

A relative handful of American patriots pledged to each other their Lives, Fortunes, and their Sacred Honor. After winning their independence ON THE BATTLEFIELD, they then founded the mose free society that the planet has ever known.

Before ONE AMERICAN life is lost in Africa, I'd like to see a popular military uprising against the tyrants. The Civil Rights protests were sucessful because America was already free, and the average citizen was outraged by the brutality arrayed against peaceful protestors. In Africa "peaceful protestors" are "targets".

[rdb3]

Bring the appreciative ones over through proper immigration and send the unappreciative ones here back.

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It's completely impossible to send someone "back" to where they have never been.