Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JEB who wrote (43173)	8/27/2002 8:10:52 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

These are bunch of -ss holes; they have no interest of the millions of the dying Africans. It is a shame, environment pollution and green talks is the biggest bigotry in the town. Poverty is the biggest polluter, too much of regulation destroys environment does not improve it; we live in a far better world than what our ancestors ever could have dreamt off. The real issues are here.. lets look at them.. my son who works in summer for Medecins Sans Frontier wrote this few weeks back.. Monday, August 05, 2002 I have recently been volunteering for Medecins Sans Frontier (known in America as "Doctors without Borders") and I review their projects that are putatively around the world however in reality most of them are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. The media projects of MSF are oriented towards publicising Aids Pandemic (my knowledge of Aids has increase by leaps and bounds by one day's research) and I myself was astounded to read that 40 million people (primarily Africans) are expected to perish from Aids in the next twenty years and that infant mortality was going to reach new highs in Africa because of Aids. A crisis that has arisen this month is the risk of starvation in Angola, where a devastating civil war has led to the decimation of the nation's ability to sustain its rapidly growing population. Refugee camps in southern Africa are suffering from the high rates of the HIV virus and in the Horn of Africa death rates of infants at the camps have reduced to around 2 or 3 a day (which is still an immensely high rate considering that the normal death of a population per ten thousand individuals is 0.5). In Sierra Leone MSF doctors are still treating the ghastly mutilations inflicted on the civilian population by the rebels and I believe that MSF staff interviewing mothers at refugee camps in conflict-ridden regions report that the vast majority of these women have lost around more than half or half of their children (one women stated that she had given birth to 12 children only to see 9 of them die over the years). As the MSF president said "Inertia with regards to such a crisis is a crime" and I agree wit him. It is time for the world to take action with regards to Sub-Saharan Africa by invading it and allowing the UN (US) to administer the region. Naturally there will be condemnation of such a proposal; for instance it could be considered inherently racist & imperialist, impractical and could endanger lives throughout the continent. In addition perhaps there are some successful Sub-Saharan African states (Botswana), which should not suffer the loss of sovereignty like the rest of the failed states in the region. However these arguments are void for the simple reason is that the opportunity cost of not acting now would be a condemnation of an entire continent to an endless cycle of poverty & bad governance as well leaving it's inhabitants to be systematically destroyed from a plague that has permeated every region (the invasion may cost thousands of lives now but it will prevent the needless deaths of millions). The Western nations will be far better suited to administering these nations than the natives ever could & will (at least for the foreseeable future) and colonial rule was responsible for modern infrastructure in Sub-Saharan (and North) Africa, why can it not bring about a new era of modernity in Africa? The political will naturally does not exist and ultimately millions of Africans will continue to perish, hidden from the world at large and shut off from the global consciousness, because of fears of "racism"!http://www.latif.blogspot.com Zachary Latif 18:05