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The_Right_Honourable
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Jesus christ! The pointlessness of all this is staggering!
Brown is basically saying that corrupt african/ex-colonial regimes should stop blaming us for all their problems. Theyve had 50 years!!!
We need to move on from that, address the real problems and help those nations into the modern age. |
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thundertaker
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| We can't really do that until the Africans themselves get sick enough of their corrupt dictators to overthrow them and introduce genuinely deomcratic government whose members won't simply steal foreign aid to build palaces and fund spending-sprees in the capitals of europe......... |
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The_Right_Honourable
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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thundertaker wrote: We can't really do that until the Africans themselves get sick enough of their corrupt dictators to overthrow them and introduce genuinely deomcratic government whose members won't simply steal foreign aid to build palaces and fund spending-sprees in the capitals of europe.........
Personally i wouldnt wait. Id invade Zimbabwe with mozambiques help(why the hell else are they in the commonwealth?) Threaten to bomb the crap out of the sudan etc.
Regime change can be good. But you just have to do it in the right way. |
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