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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: epicure who wrote (106)6/13/2003 7:45:26 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
The mass graves are most certainly from the period when we gave Iraq our full support and we KNEW about the killings.

I don't think that's true. The mass graves I've read about seem to come from the 1991 period and later.

What you support, you lose the right to condemn later-

So we have no right to criticize Stalin?

There is another issue involved in the African - Iraq comparison besides simply counting bodies. Iraq was a case where things can be improved by removing a regime. Africa is a lot more complicated - tribal warfare.

I'd be interested in hearing how you think we should handle the Congo situation. The UN fort idea seems like it would only work if you could create a fort (actually fortified refugee camp) large enough to hold all the potential victims of violence - which would amount to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, possibly permanently. Anyway, what should we be doing that we aren't?
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