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Thread ID: 8265 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-07-19
2003-07-19 20:18 | User Profile
**Bush and his Nation Building
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Late last week, two syndicated columns in nearby Greensboro's "mainstream" daily tried to justify Pres. Bush's nation-building agenda - in both Iraq and Liberia - as a national-security need. But the problem is that not only doesn't nation-building stand up to close examination, it doesn't stand up to any examination - at least as something needed for national security.
The key line of those two columns is that "failed states" can't be allowed to exist - lest they become incubators for jihadists or other terrorists who would attack the Lower 48. But the problem is that this doctrine leads everywhere and nowhere - and hardly just in the Third World.
True, the neocons are correct that Liberia is a failed state. The problem is that so is every other black African nation. Does neocon doctrine really boil down to saying that a new American colonialism is needed from South Africa to Kenya in order that no Moslem nut will attack Manhattan? After all, black Africa hardly has ever been a fertile recruiting ground for terrorists who attack the U.S. - or even who attack its major allies - and no advocate of Washington taking over "failed states" has even suggested doing it to the feudal dictatorship whose radicals funded the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda: Saudi Arabia.
The core problem of the "failed states" doctrine of the neocons is that it hardly ends with the neocon's connotation for the term. For example, France - whose residents are about 10% Moslem, many very-radical young immigrants or their kids - is the obvious failing state, if not a failed one; the French police can't or won't end the near-nightly rioting and arson attacks by residents of France's largely-Moslem slum suburbs - or the rampant intertribal war by its Moslem residents against its much-smaller Jewish population for the past three years that France's own government has refused to stop and their rampant gang rapes of young French women generally. Think Bush will "regime change" a mainly-white European nuclear power? Indeed, the "failed states" doctrine would easily apply in the U.S. itself - to California, a state whose finances are as hopeless as any black African nation's and which is a place where international borders are a joke. While Washington has repeatedly run the municipality of Washington itself, it has never "regime changed" a failed U.S. state like California - or any of the many failed core urban areas of Blue Nation that have politics every bit as corrupt as the former Rhodesia's, whose mayors repeatedly go to jail, have as little legitimate economic base as Kenya's, and whose government schools have a 50% dropout rate.
One reason why every American should yell "hell no" loudly to both nation-building and the associated "failed states" doctrine of the neocons is simple - there just isn't enough of a tax base in all America to support a new American colonialism everywhere in the Third World alone where a nation has failed to live up to Western dreams of what a nation should be. And that's aside from such "minor" details as whether fixing Liberia is worth the death of one young Green Beret from Red Nation.
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2003-07-19 20:22 | User Profile
It now appears about 22,000 soldiers are supposedly headed to Liberia. As a white mother, I sure wouldn't want any of my children to defend those Liberians. They are some of the nastiest humans around besides those in Somalia. Get prepared for another white soldier stripped and paraded around without genitals.
Lady
2003-07-19 22:54 | User Profile
Why not just let the :afro: fight it out for themselves? Its their country and continent.