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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
When was the last time a UN sanction did anything? The UN has become nothing but an international debating society with strange ground rules - perhaps that is all it's ever been. How involved should anyone get into African affairs? I'm not sure it can be dealt with an a national basis - I think you'd end up having to deal with the entire continent - save a couple of exceptions. The results of European imperialism that failed and the nations they either abondoned or were kicked out of have, for the most part, never really functioned as governments above the tribal level in most instances. If the UN was capable of dealing with a problem of this extent then they are probably the ones that should deal with it - perhaps if even the African nations could agree to form some sort of international organization on their continent it might be helpful.
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The reason I was asking about UN sanctions was that there ARE sanctions against Liberia. Those sanctions keep the Liberian government from selling diamonds in the world marketplace in exchange for weapons (there's your alterior motive- the US wants all their diamonds). The UN is incapable of helping the Liberians- that's why they don't. The Liberians have a running feud with the UN for imposing sanctions on them, so they wouldn't want them there anyway. That's why the call goes out for the US to help. Who else is there who would? And if they do help them they will draw the attention of the rest of the world, who will call their moves "Imperialistic" and the people of the US will be labeled as militaristic baby-killers. So maybe Charles Lindberg was right after all. The only people who want us there are the munitions dealers. Let's bring back Hitler and tell him we're sorry that the people of the US are so selfish. He never attacked us after all. Maybe if we'd simply sued the Japanese for peace (that's what they were hoping for anyway) we could've stayed out of the war. It would have helped our shaky economy to sell the Japanese oil, they needed it in Manchuria. How absolutely self centered of us to want to rule the world. We should stay home and turn the other cheek on the rest of the world and on the Liberians who will die. After all, Liberia ISN'T going to be the 51st state anyway (and we'll still have to PAY for our diamonds).