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Bush Tells President Taylor to Leave Liberia | ||
2003-07-02 | ||
President Bush told Liberian President Charles Taylor on Wednesday to leave his West African country and said the United States was looking at ways to end nearly 14 years of violence there.
When a Texan tells you to git out of town, you better git. Bush had previously demanded simply that Taylor step down. An increasing number of people have suggested that Taylor could go into exile elsewhere in the region to try to end the bloody crisis, but the situation is complicated by an indictment for war crimes brought against him by a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone. And we have to do what the U.N. tells us to do, right?
No West African leaders also suggest that might be the best way of ending Liberia's war and thereby helping ensure peace elsewhere. They are also not happy with the idea that they might also have to face a war crimes trial someday. "It may not satisfy purists on one side or the other, but we are not just looking at the fate of one man but that of three million people," Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo told Reuters. It'll be easier to help those three million people if we just remove one man. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one." | ||
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