[ninenot]

Your cynicism is overtaking your judgment.

We ignore the African problem because we have NO NATIONAL INTERESTS at stake: unlike Saddam, no African country finances terrorism against us, nor trains terrorists to work against us, nor is producing C-B-R weapons for use against us, or anyone else.

Thus, the African problems are quite properly the province of the United Nations, whose task is to render humanitarian assistance and, if necessary, military force to implement justice.

Complain to Kofi Annan

[cyborg]

You are right. I had time to think about it. As much as I want people to act like missionaries, in the end it is not the United States or any other nation's responsibility. You are also right in pointing out the UN's place in this.