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2011-08-08, 17:01 | Link #15523 | |
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Still, even in the unlikely event of a massive UN sanctioned intervention in African warzones, what can modern militaries do? They are not police forces and it's hard to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Not to mention there are multiple factions at any given time. Pacifying and policing regions would take loads of troops and high casualty rates, if it even can be done at all. That's a recipe for political suicide for any government supporting those actions. They only proven method is scorched earth tactics, and that is a bit self defeating, if the aim is to help the population. Emergency aid is pretty much the only thing that can be done from the outside at the moment. |
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2011-08-08, 17:14 | Link #15524 | |
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2011-08-08, 17:38 | Link #15525 |
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[QUOTE=AnimeFan188;3721080Looks like it's China's turn now. I wonder how that'll pan out?[/QUOTE]
They will pay big money for ressource, big part (if not most) of this money won't reach the population on any way.
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2011-08-08, 17:43 | Link #15526 | |
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2011-08-08, 17:51 | Link #15528 |
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Best we can do in Africa is actually just to not stick our noses into their affairs , and trade with them on a fair and equal basis.
It's not our job to police the continent, at most I'd only stop the most egregious acts (EG the Rwandan Genocide), but if a country is set on a course of civil war there's little direct we can do, like the gbagbo/ouattara feud in Cote D'Ivoire. In such a conflict there isn't really any side we can side with, and the only thing that's likely to happen is that we unite everyone against us. If they want to plunge their own country into civil war it's their problem... |
2011-08-08, 19:34 | Link #15533 | |
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Oh right. "Monetary Policy", "Keynesian Economics". He wrote that in his textbook with Robert Frank after all. U.S. stocks slammed in 2008-style rout You gotta love the way the Marketwatch editors craft the headlines : Wes Craven would have been proud.
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2011-08-08, 19:50 | Link #15535 | |
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2011-08-08, 20:19 | Link #15536 | |
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Scotland Yard reported 225 arrests being made. COBRA meeting's going to start soon (Not that COBRA by the way) and some rioters have attacked a supermarket in the process... Jeez, nothing like a little protest to get the rioters mingled in there. Maybe it's better if the police regulate the protests so that a group of more than 5 won't be allowed.
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2011-08-08, 20:23 | Link #15537 | |
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Is it primarily minority youths or is it white and black? I ask because while I know that Britain has a fair population of minorities, I was under the impression that poverty over there is not as strictly cut across racial lines as it is (or is percieved to be) here in the US. |
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2011-08-08, 20:33 | Link #15538 | |
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I gave up on the US long ago. It is a dying nation. I wonder how many nations will be created from its break up |
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2011-08-08, 20:36 | Link #15540 | |
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It does vary heavily by location though, so in london, for instance, a lot more of the urban poor are non-white, and there are far more ethnic gangs. Not so much in other cities though. I think there's a racial element to it, but I'd say it's mainly about a certain class of youth being disenchanted and alienated from society. It's different from previous protests in Britain (EG over university tuition) as these riots are pretty much entirely working class. I don't really know much, frankly, I don't think anyone really knows what's going on. |
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