Posted on 04/13/2011 3:06:56 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Four months ago, Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo had a choice: step aside peacefully after losing an election or drag his country into war. To help persuade him to leave, US diplomats explored the possibility of Gbagbo, a former history professor, being offered a position at US colleges, including Boston University, according to congressional aides and State Department officials familiar with the effort.
Hilary Renner, a press officer for the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, said that State Department officials reached out to a number of Gbagbo’s aides, friends, and associates in the weeks after the Nov. 28 election to tell them that he had a variety of options available if he left peacefully, “including potential positions in academia.’’ ....
Renner said efforts to get Gbagbo to leave and accept a university position ended in December after he refused to give up power and declined to take a call from President Obama.
“It became quickly apparent that Gbagbo no longer met the profile of a gracefully departed defeated candidate who might be welcomed into such a position,’’ she said. ....
Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya told CNN that he visited Gbagbo and communicated a US offer “that he would be allowed to be a lecturer at the University of Boston.’’ Gbagbo refused.
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Kinda like Gore in 2000. Except he had to get on with the main business, Man made Global Warming, business waits for no one.
I'm surprised that Yale didn't put in a bid, or even Columbia. Both of
those "institutions" just love terrorists, dictators, frauds, and the like.
Can we offer a Obama a professor job in the Ivory Coast? It would be a good swap.
If you look at dude’s hair, he belongs at Tufts.
I wonder what the payback was to BU from the government? There’s something corrupt somewhere when the federal government offers someone a job at a private school.
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