[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.

[yankeedame]

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

Fancy that! Expecting a country and a people to solve their own (all too often self-made) problems. What is the world coming to?

[Lost Highway]

You are dead on. Especially with no 3. Can you imagine the reaction from the left if we did in Africa what we are doing in Iraq? Make no mistake, the only solution is the "aggressive use of force".

[Fraulein]

(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

Bingo!