Mercenary army needed to save Africa
source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120450689184406553.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
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As the experience of Blackwater and other private security forces in Iraq demonstrates, relying on contract armed forces presents a number of difficult challenges, including oversight and accountability. But current peacekeeping efforts are not immune from such problems.
Whatever the problems posed by private, U.N.-backed armed forces, none would be worse than standing by while hundreds of thousands of Africans die.
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Nothing can be worse than standing by? Has anyone here heard of Executive Outcomes? It was a U.S. backed South African mercenary organization that helped invade Angola. Assisted in keeping its civil war active until 2003, and in that time more people died because of these mercenaries and their brutal tactics than would have died without. They would not be bound by International laws, those that keep some semblance of order, thus what would keep them from no longer being a peace keeping force and becoming another occupying military body? But, this is Africa and things work differently here. So maybe a brutal, privately funded and well equipped group of U.S. and British special forces trained men, with no understanding of the cultural norms, mores, or traditional history of the peoples they are 'protecting' would be a great idea. Or the fact that they have no vested interest on a personal level could prove all of that a mistake.
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Africa Rising link is awesome, smorrisey, thank you!
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The mission of Africa Rising is to bring hope to people in communities suffering from epidemics of poverty, disease, and injustice and to raise awareness of the challenges facing those communities.
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smorrisey
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hire blackwater to protect them from...THE UNITED STATES??
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