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To: Le-Roy
Suppose Bush were to announce tomorrow that he was sending US forces to Zimbabwe to stop the violence & restore order.

What would be the reaction of the NAACP? The Congressional Black Caucus?
13 posted on 08/24/2002 6:58:38 PM PDT by Republic If You Can Keep It
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To: Republic If You Can Keep It
Who cares? If you justify one, you should be able to justify the other.

Better yet, why don't we try minding our own damn business across the board? We can't solve all the world's problems (we're barely managing our own), and we usually wind up looking like the bad guy when we try (to those whose country gets suddenly over-run with heavy-handed militarism from afar).

What I would really like to see is the plain-spoken truth. Isn't it funny that middle and southern Africa have no significant deposits of oil. WMDs my grandmother's backside - conservative estimates of 800,000 slaughtered in Rwanda. We did absolutely nothing. Even the UN did nothing.

Quite obviously our actions are not driven by great humanitarian ideals. The unstated question, the 'hanging chad', as it were, is what exactly does drive our nation's interlopement into the affairs of only certain, select countries? Is it really just about oil, so that we can maintain our status and lifestyle of absurdly disproportionate consumption of the world's resources? Or is it, currently, their geographic proximity to the former USSR; strategic beachheads on the way to conquering a continent?

Inquiring minds (should) want to know.

16 posted on 08/24/2002 7:44:10 PM PDT by Le-Roy
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To: Republic If You Can Keep It
The real question would seem to be "Why aren't the NAACP and CBC demanding intervention?"
83 posted on 08/26/2002 11:01:44 AM PDT by wtc911
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