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2006-02-21 Africa Horn

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Posted by lotp 2006-02-21 10:24|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Koffi could not be reached for comment he was to busy depositing the $500,000 prize cough payoff from Saudi Arabia.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/781gawip.asp

The UN is a useless group we should stay in but cut all aid and support, instead throwing it into a new alliance of Democracies. Were to join you have to meet certain criteria and standards. In return you get free trade and a military alliance pact.

Cut the aid and free trade to every nation that doesnt join and they would be beating down the doors to get in. Of course the tin-hat dictators would opt out but we dont want them in until they are overthrown anyway. The good part would be their neighbors would join for protection.

Posted by C-Low 2006-02-21 10:48|| 2006-02-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Blue helmets only work when the men who wear them have live ammunition and flexible ROE. Maybe if the UN peacekeeping forces were allowed to moderate their testosterone levels by fighting bad guys they would be less inclined to debase children.

Posted by RWV 2006-02-21 10:50|| 2006-02-21 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Koffi just wants us to clean up his mess. If we don't, he can slam the US. If we do, he can slam the US for other problems (real or imagined) on the Sudan and for our "slow" response.

News flsah Koffi, we ain't playin' your stooopid game. Fuck off and die.

Posted by mmurray821 2006-02-21 11:01|| 2006-02-21 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Somewhere in DC Voinivich is on a resperator.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-02-21 11:19|| 2006-02-21 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Annan yesterday declined to respond, but his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, countered by saying that "the planning process is moving full steam ahead."

Which means that abso-frickin'-lutely NOTHING of substance is being done. Wankers!

Posted by Zenster 2006-02-21 11:37|| 2006-02-21 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 We recognize that the secretary-general needs help

LMAO! Bolton hits the nail on the head, in diplo-doublespeak, of course.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-02-21 12:05|| 2006-02-21 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 AP, you just made my day. I hadn't thought of that aspect! LMAO!!

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-02-21 12:17|| 2006-02-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 yess i love Bolton, tells it straight and honest-something completely new for the U.N. and Annan

Posted by bgrebel 2006-02-21 12:50|| 2006-02-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Best UN ambassador since Moynahan

Posted by Omaviting Uninelet2338 2006-02-21 14:19|| 2006-02-21 14:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Not quite up-front, but definitely honest.

Funny thought: African troops have the language advantage on American troops (unless you were to import a heckuva lot of SOCOM or selected multilingual US armed forces personnel for this deployment).

I'm calling one thing to be bullshit -- Sudan's complaint. UN or AU, aren't they *both* infringing on Sudanese sovereignty? If so, why is AU infringement on Sudanese sovereignty acceptable? Or is it easier to pay off African countries than everyone in the UN?

Posted by Edward Yee 2006-02-21 14:19|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2006-02-21 14:19|| Front Page Top

#11 #10: -Funny thought: African troops have the language advantage on American troops (unless you were to import a heckuva lot of SOCOM or selected multilingual US armed forces personnel for this deployment).

I think it is a valid point, re the language aspect, although you describe it as a funny thought. If you want the details of the validity, let me know.

In the first instance, let's choose between these guys, they've all got along famously for years:

Lots to choose from, Swahili-Arabic looks good for the region, doubt you would want a Bemba speaker, though, and the Kiyanwanda and the Rundi probably still dont get along.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to send in the
multi-lingual guys from the map on page 2 of the above. Or a cross-section of both maps, that would be best.
It's not an American problem, it's an old Colonial/3rd World one, unless its....Strategic.
And, if Africa is so strategic, even in a moral sense, why was it let go so easily post-WW2, and for the past 50 years-plus become steadily worse whilst these guys have culled one another, and no brothers sorted it out? I wouldnt want any of them on my side, and I do not want to help, when the word is out the Murungus will get slaughtered in South Africa when Mandela dies and successful farmers are shot and torched. The shame, I feel nothing.

Anyway, I dont believe the US should get involved in Africa, apart from denying them entry, unless a strict visa with a hefty fee applies.
This is Rantburg, right?

rhodesiafever

Posted by Ebbolugum Spinesing7842 2006-02-21 17:36|| 2006-02-21 17:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Where's my link?

Try again:
a href=http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/curriculum/lm8/stu_8activitytwomap1.html/a

Posted by Ebbolugum Spinesing7842 2006-02-21 17:39|| 2006-02-21 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Koffee has been sitting on his hands for how long? How many innocent people have been killed?

Colin Powell called it a genocide over three years ago. Koffee was with him on the tour.

This one needs to be hung on Koffee's neck for the rest of his life.

Posted by Captain America 2006-02-21 17:54|| 2006-02-21 17:54|| Front Page Top

#14 If so, why is AU infringement on Sudanese sovereignty acceptable? Or is it easier to pay off African countries than everyone in the UN?

Sudan managed to get the kind of AU force it wanted. It limited Nigeria's influence (for all its problems, the country has perhaps the most professional military on the continent) before the force was deployed. The AU was forced to be dependent on Sudan for some critical support, like fuel. Lastly, Sudan was able to work behind the scenes at the AU to further limit the forces' effectiveness. That Sudan was up for the AU chair was likely also a factor.

Posted by Pappy 2006-02-21 19:06|| 2006-02-21 19:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry, that should have been 'sub-Saharan' continent. PIMF.

Posted by Pappy 2006-02-21 19:08|| 2006-02-21 19:08|| Front Page Top

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