I would be especially interested to hear your case about how France's current efforts in Cote d'Ivoire are a "crime",
I don't know if it is myself. But I once heard someone say things like this were a violation of international law unless there was UN authorization. Personally, I think its possible the French military are going in in a just cause. But I do think there is no international authorization which is held to be vitally important for America. No double standards, you know.
especially since it looks like they are trying for an agreement between the factions in the country, rather than an invasion, seizing of its natural resources, or a "regime change".
Uh, if they there to enforce an agreement, they are effectively deciding who has power and how much over someone's disapproval (else why the need for troops). The next thing to regime change. I don't think they have to seize assets. French pretty much already run a lot of the economies in their former colonies. So there isn't much to seize - protect, maybe.
I actually see a lot of good in the article you posted. Thanks for posting it.
The affair in Iraq, in its way, is banal, just another story of a Third World despot, victimizing principally his own people, who will come to a bad end. In Africa there is no avenging Captain America waiting to do justice.
The point of the article seems to be while America is out to do justice in Iraq, America neglects doing so in Africa so France has to step in and do the thankless task. He has a point. America does ignore Africa to a large extent. But then Africa has no Saddam working on WMD's and trying to seize the oil fields stretching along Africa's west coast between Nigeria and Angola. |
