[Peace-discuss] RE: Bushwar in Africa

[David Green]

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=5094

"In the peace as well as the war, the double standards
of the 'international community' are on flagrant
display.  Atrocious as they were, neither Saddam
Hussein's regime in Iraq nor the Afghanistan's Taliban
amassed death counts as high as those who are part of
the Congo's provisional government today.  Amnesty for
Saddam or the Taliban is unthinkable for the very US
elites and opinion-makers who would shrug their
shoulders at the power-sharing arrangement in the
Congo as the best thing possible under the
circumstances.  And yet it will not be surprising if
some day the slaughter in the Congo is used as a
rhetorical device to prove the necessity of bombing
some other beleaguered people, as the slaughter in
Rwanda was so used at the very same moment that the
people of the Congo were being killed while also being
ignored, neglected, and stolen from.  The situation is
unlikely to change until people - people outside
looting corporations, opportunistic state
functionaries and complicit media --  come to know and
care about Africa.  Nzongola-Ntalaja's book, and
Clark's, can help in this capacity."
 


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