[dufekin]

An excellent article. Please read.

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[Future Useless Eater]

No offense, but we're not the world's peacekeepers.

We have to have overwhelming CIA evidence of danger to
our OWN security, before we can go after a madman.

[JoJo Gunn]

It's not like the eUNuchs will do anything, that's for dang sure.

[Ronzo]

Amid the verdant hills and emerald forests that cloak much of Congo like a hot velvet blanket, someone reportedly blew a whistle. And a killing party began. On cue, armed soldiers and civilians -- men, women and even children -- took up machetes and hacked their neighbors to death.

Just another sunny day in Africa. It would be a mistake to intervene militarily, for it wouldn't be right for us to infringe on their way of life. We need to stop being so judgmental. It's perfectly acceptable in some cultures to hack your neighbors to death with machetes.

[tictoc]

Obviously the U.S. cannot clean up the African continent.

So what's to be done?

My proposal: Adopt one (1) African country. Help it to become a showcase for free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy.

Set a list of conditions for the government to fulfill, and gradually extend to them most-favored nation trade status so that they can export their way out of poverty.

My hunch is that many black Africans are discouraged because there is no country that acts as a shining example to the rest of them. They have many smart people but the rampant corruption stifles their initiative.

Maybe Kenya. They just had orderly, peaceful elections last year and voted in a new government on an anti-corruption platform. Unfortunately several cabinet ministers died in a plane crash and it is touch and go how things are going to turn out.

Focusing aid on one country and making a commitment to their success could be much more effective than scattering $15 billion around the continent on AIDS programs.

[nmh]

Unfortunately the U.S. is not a world policeman BUT the United Nations could do something about this.

[Mr. Mojo]

I wonder if the lowly machete, which also took the bulk of 800,000 Rwandan lives in 1994

Klintoon thought the "genocide" in the Balkans was a far more important matter. And it had the added benefit of being a war against Christians. The Slickster couldn't pass up such an opportunity. The 800,000 slaughtered Rwandans, on the other hand, probably didn't even register on his radar.

[RS]

Please don't remind us of how good it is to be here while we are fighting for reparations and affirmative action.

[U S Army EOD]

Maybe if Jesse Jackson would just got talk to them they would listen.

[butter pecan fan]

Just one question: Did you hear about it?

Yes. But only because I FReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppp!

[Cold Heat]

Yah know, I am so sick of hearing about these tribal massacres in Koffi's home stomping grounds that I am about to puke.

what in the hell is going on with the totally incontinent U.N.

This is their responsibility and their mission. It is what we give them support for and what we expect them to do.

I for one will NOT be held responsible for the disgusting and abominable behavior of these so called people!

I wish that God would take notice of this forsaken land and wipe it clean of immorality because we have our hands full of it right now and are doing the best we can.

Come on world! how about a little help out there to go with your constant and never ending criticism! FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

[honeygrl]

If the US even tried to touch this one it would just add to the griping about us trying to take over the world.

[VOA]

Massacre in Africa happened while our heads were turned

Actually, it took place while PRESIDENT Bill Clinton was trying to make sure
he was getting as much attention to his little...OK, I'll not go there.

Lot of us, conservatives included, listened to the reports in horror.
And wondered how a "for the children" President couldn't at least use his
bully pulpit to at least try to reduce the murderous tide.

But then we remember, it was all about Bill Clinton...
Of course, he did feel their pain after the poor Africans were dead or
had hands/legs machetted off.

Like most liberals, Clinton is a racist.
Liberation from tyranny is for white Europeans, not brown, black or Asian people.

[thatdewd]

BTTT. Hey Kofi, where were you? The UN could actually make itself useful in Africa, but since there is no US policy to interfere with, they ignore it. Kofi's tenure has brought more shame and disgrace to the UN than any previous SG.

[farmfriend]

Did you see the reply I got to another thread that said we would only do something about it if they had resources to partially pay for it? They are a threat after all.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Where are the human shields and why aren't they doing anything about this?