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Old 12-07-2005, 04:42 PM
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Nobody mentioned the c-word. Corruption—as in African leaders’ corruption.

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This is indeed the major problem. Taki's major problem is that he believes it happens without the help and connivance of the major countries of the world. As if Africa somehow lives in a fishbowl.

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Well, it's easy to see that corrupt U.N. officials, and the "bureaucrooks" in France and the EU, ran the largest fraud in history with the oil-for-food scam.

But, how exactly did the U.S., U.K., and Japan help and connive to enable the despots of Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sudan and Sierra Leone to steal vast sums and murder huge numbers of people?

Taki writes:

"Sudan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are three glaring examples of this. Ethiopia has spent huge sums fighting Eritrea over a disputed border. Over 65 million Ethiopians can now hardly feed themselves, while the government spends billions on arms. Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is an impoverished nation because of Robert Mugabe’s greed and disasterous anti-white policies. The psychopathic Liberian murderer Charles Taylor is living in Nigeria with the hundreds of millions he stole from the nation’s coffers, and his protector, Olusegun Obasanjo, presents himself in Davos and lectures us on the need to help Africa. Ditto Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa and the prime mover behind the theory that AIDS does not exist but is an American plot to weaken Africans."

If you know how the U.S., U.K., and Japan are complicit in these things, pray do tell.

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They don't buy weapons from other 3rd World countries. They don't use 3rd World banking and financial institutions. Diplomatically hardly any (if any) are pariahs to all the leading countries of the world and if they have any military strategic advantages or any valuable resources they are actively sought as friends by the leading industrial nations. Are you implying that its just China, Russia and the dreaded French who keep the really bad and unsavory bedfellows and that us righteous - and in your mind you know who these are - countries are guilty of nothing more than slightly dodgy deal every now and again with the lovable and ultimately harmless rogues. To imply, as Taki does, that these countries are the sole champions of there own destiny is smoke and mirrors. And to imply, as you do, that the US is any less guilty than Russia, that China is more darstardly than Japan, that the UK and the French have different moral compasses on these issues is fairy tale.
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Old 12-07-2005, 04:43 PM
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Calling American soldiers slobby thieves sounded like Mencken to me. I was agreeing with you.

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Ah, I see...in that case you may want to check out this link...Taki on "Sofa Samurais"

http://www.takistopdrawer.us/2003/ma...-March-29.html
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