[Kenno]

I hate to say this, but there's a very good reason the US doesn't ever want to intervene militarily in Africa.

AIDS.

It's a well-known fact that servicemen like their fun. In Africa, that "fun" is likely to be infected. The US government is well aware that the Cuban war in Angola resulted in most of the soldiers sent there being infected by prostitutes. Thus Castro quarantined them when they returned. In the US, the ACLU would never allow a quarantine.

Which is why you won't see US troops in sub-Saharan Africa any time soon.

[cyborg]

That never occured to me. Scary stuff. Perhaps the military should teach the soldiers to keep it in their pants. Besides AIDS, you also have illegitimate children (Vietnam),etc. I didn't know that about Cuba though.

[dark_lord]

Nope. There are three real reasons.

(1) There aren't any countries there that are an effective threat to the United States - unlike Iraq.
(2) There is no good economic benefit for intervening - unlike Iraq.
(3) The only effective solution in most of those places involves shooting a few thousand black folks. Which no Republican administration would dare to do. And the Democrats aren't interested in military power projection.

So the Africans are screwed unless they solve their own problems.

[RJayneJ]

Well, we kind of have our hands full at the moment. What is it we are supposed to do anyway? Most of their problems don't require a military solution.

[KeyWest]

Since April 1, 2003

Welcome to FR.

Total BS. Nice try.