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| Africa Subsaharan |
| The CAR is crashing |
| 2014-04-16 |
| [DAWN] ... The United Nations fiddled while Rwanda imploded 20 years ago, and has sporadically been wringing its hands ever since. The helpless Ban knows that, in the context of CAR, a six-month wait means leaving it much too late. Cue: another bout of vigorous hand-wringing. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 rjschwarz - Don't forget Cyprus. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-04-16 20:57 |
| #8 ..until the locals figure out to ignore the UN - as in Sri Lanka. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-16 17:39 |
| #7 In fact I read an article that suggested that smaller factions know that in the modern era they will be bailed out before being destroyed and this helps keep conflicts going longer than in the past. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-16 14:43 |
| #6 UN's first three involvements were Kashmir, Israel and Korea and all three are still global hotspots. Why would anyone want the UN involved? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-16 14:42 |
| #5 You can bring religion, schools, technology, but time and time again, all of this will do nothing to jump a people through evolution. They are 2000 years behind western civilization, to think that with a few books, roads, and Christ you can catch them up in a few decades is foolish. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-04-16 11:20 |
| #4 Correct TW, reading & writing, maths, modern medicine, religions of all types, the basic elements of modern civilization. Unfortunately, that won't end the popular 'blame game' set against the long departed colonizers. The jungle drumbeat and legacy of oppressive colonialism, apartheid, Zionism, and slavery must continue. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-16 10:37 |
| #3 The colonizers built roads and schools and health clinics. The UN troops aren't doing any such thing, which proves them ever so much better than the evil ones of that earlier time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-04-16 10:28 |
| #2 The unintended farce here is this is exactly the excuses the Europeans used in their colonization of the continent. The locals can't handle it. It's for peace and progress. The difference being now its to be done by the kleptocrats of the UN under the multi-national banner who are largely a bunch of left wingers. Remember these are the people who referred to the European colonial experience as 'evil'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-16 08:46 |
| #1 An area gone mad with nearly half a century of sectarian violence. The UN should be blamed for only one thing, attempting to stop it. These people dance to a different synaptic drummer. Leave them to their work. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-16 08:24 |