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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (878)	12/13/2001 3:36:47 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39344

OT re: if the African AIDS epidemic isn't fought with all available means, recolonization of the continent could become a possibility within 20 to 30 years. Yes, that's the way I see it. The rich world can no longer ignore the poor world, because any unpoliced nation is a potential SafeHarbor for the Bin Ladens of the world. We are now at the inflection point, where the 150-year-long retreat of colonialism gets reversed. And non-Muslim Africa is the area most likely to get re-colonized, as it is the region where despair, anger, poverty are getting steadily worse the fastest, and governments are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Over wide areas of the continent, there is no functioning government, just a shifting patchwork of warlords who prey on the subject populations and each other. Like in the "Warring States" and 1839-1949 eras in China. If Bin Laden hides in Katanga, the U.S. will have no choice but to move in, then erect and support a functioning government there, which will be a U.S. colony, in everything but name. The price of medicines is irrelevant. It changes nothing, and focussing on that issue means that the real solutions don't even get discussed. If you want to defeat AIDS, it has to be done the way Cuba has: an authoritarian, pro-active prevention program. Cuba could have gone the way of Haiti, if not for Castro. IMO, 100 years from now, Castro will be a hero in Cuba, not because he stood up to the HegemonicColonialist (Land of the FreeAndTheBrave to me), but because he saved his nation from the demographic disaster that engulfed many, many other poor countries.