"Why should they be using the military to promote development when they already have institutions within the U.S. government that are better capable and more acceptable?" Okumu said.
Because we we haven't any "Foreign Service" personnel willing bear the risk of danger in the State Dept.
"Why should they be using the military to promote development when they already have institutions within the U.S. government that are better capable and more acceptable?" Okumu said.
Because we we haven't any "Foreign Service" personnel willing bear the risk of danger in the State Dept.
You mean - in Iraq. The Foreign Service is everywhere else. Always have been.
since many of their countries became independent from colonial rule, NOTHING but civil war and mass killings have come from Africans deciding their own affairs. Darfur and Rawanda are the most recent examples of "African thinking" in the political and economic spectrum.
The last thing America can do at this juncture is attempt to pull the wool over anyones eyes. If there is even a hint of impropriaty, the Africans will be showing the U.S. the door. It is better to be up front with them, even if it is about the oil. They don't care.
We'll never learn will we? For the love of god, we dont have all the answers. Why do we keep mucking about in these third world cess pools, trying to bring them into the 21st century?
Sounds like Africans who would even query whether terrorists will threaten to come in through their back doors because of the newly established AFRICOM's future activities there, should really wake up from the deep sleep that they are in. The terrorists are already there & deeply entrenched among them...& have been for quite some time. Most are in bed with many corrupt government leaders raping many of their peoples & nations there....
Originally posted by HRDKAS: We'll never learn will we? For the love of god, we dont have all the answers. Why do we keep mucking about in these third world cess pools, trying to bring them into the 21st century?
I'm begging to think the same thing. Spreading Democracy around the world IS the cure for poverty, starvation, desease, etc, but the "patient" country has to be willing, and as we have found, this is not the case. Most 3rd world cesspools try their best to blindfold the "doctor" and squeeze out cash to line up their pockets, because as I have observed, the leaders of 3rd world cesspools like the Middle East, Africa, and Mexico, don't give a rats *** about their own people, the elites who run those countries just do a good job of appearing to do so, so they can recieve aid from USA to further line their corrupt pockets.
But these countries will never turn away our money. Look at what was Rhodesia. A very well run country, that now cannot feed itself. Maybe some peoples cannot live under anything unless being directed on what to do.
Originally posted by JimSorber: Who can blame them for their concern? They have every reason to be suspicious.
"Africans are concerned the new command is an American attempt to project military might, unnecessarily bringing the global war on terror to their own backyard. They also wonder whether it is a ruse to protect America's competitive stake in African oil..."
Bingo, the magic words, "AFRICAN OIL" & "America's competitive stake in.." I have to wonder WHY some of the guys on this site, rather then demean me as a person, don't spend some of their time reviewing our "Oil Industry" Financial's! The time would be better spent, inasmuch as, comparitively speaking I'm nobody, I'm NOT political, I'm neither Dem or Rep, I'm just an American that is sick and tired of watching my government get so far out of control. I don't mind stating my views, if you don't like them then don't read them.
Follow the money trail back to the Off-Shore Bank accounts of our politician's, and Oil Executives, there you'll find the problem, the how and why of it!
