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I think Bush has a good idea on this one - transparency and accountability in IMF and World Bank aid. A good deal of the money from "foreign aid" and foreign-aid sponsored resource deals goes straight into the pockets of the dictators and cronies ruling these countries. Corruption is a HUGE problem.
I don't have any problem with using military force to remove these people and to monitor the situations. I just think it ought to come from the UN and not from the US alone. One, shares the cost and the risk; two, you get multiple perspectives instead of one country's ideas; three, it would send a powerful message of unity, that the world will not stand by while this happens. Four, be nice if the rest of us (particularly Europe but even the US's hands aren't clean on this) helped straighten out the mess we've helped create.
Probably won't happen, but it'd be nice if it could.
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