[ClearCase_guy]

So, we intervene in Kosovo, and we're fixin' to in Iraq, but this, and the massacres in Rwanda are not even a blip on the radar screen.

Here's the difference:

Kosovo is in Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe has had civilized rule in the past. High Culture. Literature, Music, Art. It's had good times and bad times. If Kosovo could be straightened out, it might possibly turn into a happy place.

Iraq has been home to great civilizations. Although the Middle East is often violent and backward, it is not always so. There have been great societies there. Literature and Art and Peace and Philosophy. If Iraq could be straightened out, it might possibly turn into a happy place.

African countries have never had a truly great civilization. No real art. No real literature. The great age for Africa was the age of Colonialism. Left to their own devices, the Africans cannot build a stable society. There is no hope that they will be straightened out. There is no hope that they will become happy places.

Now, let me tell you what I really think ...

[Le-Roy]

Interesting comments. Some might construe them as prejudicial/racist, but interesting, nonetheless.

Do you believe similar thinking plays a part on the fed-gov level, or NATO/UN? Or is it really just simple economics?

[freebilly]

No, the real issue is we dare not intervene in an African country once run by whites, now run by blacks. It wouldn't be politically correct to intervene, and to criticize Mugabe would be to show the world how racist we are....

[ganesha]

Do you count Egypt as being part of Africa? What about some of the ancient Christian kingdoms in Ethiopia?

[Askel5]

The great age for Africa was the age of Colonialism. Left to their own devices, the Africans cannot build a stable society

I haven't forgotten the Keunnelt-Leddihn post on colonialism I promised.

[Le-Roy]

You do realize that your view of history conflicts with what is being taught in many schools across the country today?

Saw a letter to the editor. The writer, a black man, was extolling the numerous virtues of the black race, in the course of which he made the comment, "We built the pyramids." There are a great many today who believe similarly - mostly on the basis of the half-formed hypotheses of two or three 'historians'.