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2019-04-12 Africa North

The years wasted under the rule of toppled Arab dictators

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Posted by Fred 2019-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 ...And yet somehow, it's still all our fault.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-12 07:32|| 2019-04-12 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 All giving former colonialism a rehabilitated image (except the Congo, but that was the personal medieval fiefdom of the Belgium king).

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-12 07:55|| 2019-04-12 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The Congo was fifty years from being ready for independence when the sniveling mob forced Belgium to cut them loose. I agree that King Leopold was a thug and tyrant of the first magnitude in the way the Belgian Congo was governed.

The demon spawn of that premature independence is the genesis of most of the horrific violence in Equatorial Africa

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-12 14:54|| 2019-04-12 14:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree that King Leopold was a thug and tyrant of the first magnitude in the way the Belgian Congo was governed.

Kinda like the Democrats over their congested brutal, violent, deprived and malnourished enclaves? Just asking...

Posted by Frank G 2019-04-12 19:57|| 2019-04-12 19:57|| Front Page Top

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