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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (11204)	1/10/2006 10:08:01 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

I'm not so sure of that. Rwanda and Liberia were really local tribal conflicts, with corruption driving the battles of natural resources and ability to steal from the people. The powers didn't get involved because they weren't strategic and our leaders have been stung when we get involved, i.e., "damned if you do, damned if you don't." In both cases, particularly Liberia, it would have just taken a couple of thousand marines to save perhaps 10,000 lives or more. If you go back and read some of the discussions and commentary from WWII, you see some of the similar sentiment,"It's only Jews, is it true, is it propaganda?"

To: Scoobah who wrote (11204)	1/10/2006 2:11:20 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Steve, you, too, left out one important detail. Rwanda and Burundi are landlocked poor agricultural countries with no vital natural resources like oil, gold, platinum, silver and industrial vital metals like palladium, cobalt, tungsten, tantalum, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium. If these places were resource rich, you can bet the US, Britain, France and Germany and Russia woukld have interfered. Particularly, the US will want to establish a strategic presence in any resource-rich areas! If you would take a look at areas around the world which have oil, the US is involved there, more often than not, regardless of whether there is fighting or no fighting there. Apparently, Rwanda and Burundi were not worth the bother. I agree with you the big powers had wanted them to die so that the so-called "white men's burden" will be considerably decreased in the aftermath of it all. .