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2004-12-14 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve 2004-12-14 8:49:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the problem is that DR Congo (doctor Congo?) was never really raveled, as you say. Rwanda is going in, to stop radical Hutu guerrillas from using Congo as a base - these guerillas are the same nice folks who committed one of the worst genocides since 1945 a few years back. Rwandas justified if you ask me, as are the RDC they back (though theyve used some unnecessary roughness themselves) Its probably GOOD that the UN troops are looking the other way - lets the Rwandans do what they have to do. What the UN and the world REALLY need to do is to rebuild Congo, so that Congo can stop its territory being used this way. OTOH Congo may be too big, too diverse, to really be rebuilt as a nation. Might be better off splitting it, into 3 or 4 more manageable states.

Think of Rwanda, as Israel but more primitive, sitting next to a Lebanon that about 50 times as big, but even MORE backward.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-12-14 9:38:02 AM|| 2004-12-14 9:38:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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