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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: epicure who wrote (103)6/12/2003 8:29:59 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
There weren't millions of dead. Children weren't having their arms hacked off and eaten in front of their mothers.

I think Saddam's death toll will take a long time to establish. We do know a million died in the Iran-Iraq war he started. Estimates of dead Iraqis directly at the hands of his regime - I've seen numbers from 200,000 to 1 million.

And yes, his regime did kill children in front of their parents. No cannibalism though.

Re. our support of Iraq - we've supported a number of disreputable regimes over the years because we thought at the time they were the lesser of two evils. Stalin during WWII is a prime example. Yes, we did support Iraq for a time during the Iran-Iraq war because we didn't want Iran to win the war. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Iraq's military support has come from Russia, France, and China - this was true in the '80's right up to the end of the regime.

As regards the Persian Gulf and sub-Sarahan Africa, we have much more connections behind our involvement in the Gulf. Pres. Carter is the one who first proclaimed that the free flow of oil from the Gulf was a vital interest of the US. Later we reflagged Kuwaiti vessels to protect them during the Iran-Iraq war. We carried most of the burden of fighting the war to free Kuwait and to maintain the international sanctions and no-fly zones.

We have no history of involvement militarily in Africa.

And were we to intervene in the Congo it would be as widely opposed as our overthrow of Saddam. "No blood for minerals" and so on.
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