why can't the world just build a fucking wall around africa for about a hundred years until all that arm-chopping and baby-raping shit is sorted out?
sometimes in moments of weariness i think that
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lizard
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it would be like sealing mordor behind those square mountains until sauron stops being such a giant asshole.
necklacing! i know! jesus christ!
necktying is when they slit your throat and then pull your tongue back down your throat and out the hole, so it looks like a red necktie. mob shit, i think.
necktying is when they slit your throat and then pull your tongue back down your throat and out the hole, so it looks like a red necktie. mob shit, i think.
lizard
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omg you've corrected my error on human atrocities. yeah the columbian necktie is the tongue thing, and the necklacing is the tire thing.
well since Bush has said his aids plan for africa will cost 15 bil but he has only set aside 2 bil, and his plans tout abstinance as the way to end the epidemic...I predict the entire continent will fuck themselves into oblivion except for isolated pockets of eunichs.
well since Bush has said his aids plan for africa will cost 15 bil but he has only set aside 2 bil, and his plans tout abstinance as the way to end the epidemic...I predict the entire continent will fuck themselves into oblivion except for isolated pockets of eunichs.
goatschool
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now is this to prohibit view, and, therefore, the discomfort of anglo-viewing?
or to blot out the sun?
or to make the 150,000 ugandan factions stop attacking each other and combine forces to destroy the wall? a sort of brick & mortar 'we are the world'?
or to blot out the sun?
or to make the 150,000 ugandan factions stop attacking each other and combine forces to destroy the wall? a sort of brick & mortar 'we are the world'?
lizard
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I think the wall is more a metaphor for our desire to blank out the most heinous inhumanity we have seen since the third reich.
goatschool
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some are proposing 30-40,000 U.N.-backed troops as a step in the right direction. i don't know, i thought about it this weekend and i don't have a clue.
i think i prefer knowing that 3 million have been slaughtered in less than 5 years. i think everyone should know this, it should be broadcast everywhere, three times daily.
i think i prefer knowing that 3 million have been slaughtered in less than 5 years. i think everyone should know this, it should be broadcast everywhere, three times daily.
i guess i'm really interested to see how the so-called "antiwar" contingent reacts to this. was their opposition to iraq entirely procedural--that is, with the UN's blessing, it would have been fine and dandy to bomb the fuck out of the iraqi children who constitute 70% of the country? how will they reconcile that with the US's restraining of the UN during the Rwanda crisis during the Clinton years (which is directly parallel to France, Germany, and Russia's paralyzation of the UN during Iraq), which led to 800,000 deaths over a couple of months because there was no hyperpower to flout the UN and go in anyway?
right now somewhere, a village is being de-limbed on orders of a warlord who in five or ten years, in the interests of "healing", will not be punished for the crimes and instead will probably hold a high governmental position in return for getting his men to lay down their arms (no pun intended). that's fucking sick.
right now somewhere, a village is being de-limbed on orders of a warlord who in five or ten years, in the interests of "healing", will not be punished for the crimes and instead will probably hold a high governmental position in return for getting his men to lay down their arms (no pun intended). that's fucking sick.
goatschool
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the glimpses i had of the contigent you mention were predominantly of the "no blood for oil" mentality.
whether viewed as a minority or the majority, overall, i wouldn't be suprised if there were no visible reactions.
i would venture a guess that the media is tired of whatever credence they lent to opposition a few months ago, anyhow.
whether viewed as a minority or the majority, overall, i wouldn't be suprised if there were no visible reactions.
i would venture a guess that the media is tired of whatever credence they lent to opposition a few months ago, anyhow.
avi
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I wish I knew more about the situation. or maybe I don't, come to think of it. I feel so out of it today with regards to current events.
so if liberia was petroleum-free, intervention would be a moral necessity, but if they find oil in the country, the UN/US should immediately decline to go in? i think "no blood for oil" was the worst of the arguments against the iraq war (well...maybe stuff like "ain't no iraqi ever hurt me or my family!" was dumber) and i don't know enough about liberia to make more educated statements, but i sure as fuck hope for their sake they find some oil in that country if that's the only way the US/UN would intervene.
avi
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regarding the blood for oil thing, if they openly admitted that the intervention was for oil, I wouldn't care as much. It's more the shadiness of it that rubs me wrong.
well, why would they? every war ever has had a stated reason and a real reason...usually several of each. even if it's only a "stated" reason, if the stated reason isn't a strong enough justification, the war doesn't happen. (like if Bush tried to invade England right now "because i don't like their food") but it also doesn't happen unless you can find a way to justify it economically/strategically. i don't think anyone, especially bush, is capable of radically changing the future of warfare in such a gigantic fashion.
right now i bet people are scrambling to find an "oil-like" reason for liberia. personally, i think a good enough "real" reason is that the US needs some pro-American african nations to show the resource-wealthy african nations that they're not the bad guys.
right now i bet people are scrambling to find an "oil-like" reason for liberia. personally, i think a good enough "real" reason is that the US needs some pro-American african nations to show the resource-wealthy african nations that they're not the bad guys.
goatschool
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liberia is diamonds, gold and timber.
uganda is rich in coltan (major ingredient in cell phone chips) and cobalt and uranium is in there somewhere.
we can mobilize the crusties when they start pushing eastward.
uganda is rich in coltan (major ingredient in cell phone chips) and cobalt and uranium is in there somewhere.
we can mobilize the crusties when they start pushing eastward.
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like grounding the evil of the world in its bedroom with no dinner.xfer said:
btw, i may finally get to see two towers in a theater this weekend! for $2!
