From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Mon 11 Nov 2002 - 16:27:25 GMT
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
> With all the ail wealth in Africa, why didn't the African countries
rebuild
> Africa. South Africa managed to rebuild and Zimbabwe and Kenya. Why
> couldn't all the Muslim nations? It wasn't our money that was missing.
It
> was the fact that the people governing those countries did a lousy job of
it
> and they found ways to fritter away the money that oil and other resources
> brought in on wars and outright theft. How could we have prevented them
> from doing that?
First of all, Africa was kolonized even the Northern Regions, like Libia
and Marokko. After the Europeans were gone those countries were left in
the hands of corrupt rulers I agree, but was the ruling of Italy better than
!?
I doubt that ! Did Spain a good job in Marokko !?
IMO, those counties are still in transgression from authorative towards,
some kinds of democracies inbedded in the Islamistic religion.
Kenya allows a lot of foreign investors, as South- Africa. Maybe you 're
right in saying that this have to do with religion, but than I wish to add
that
religion acts as a smothering (f)actor_ people are/ were not allowed to
express themselves otherwise than in ways indicated in the Koran, and
the former is not that keen on that !
We couldn 't prevent it ! Like I said above, the ways along we think
during centuries are that different that reaching any consensus demands
years of work !
> How could we have prevented Saddam Husein from building palaces all over
> Iraq while he claimed his people were starving. Why isn't his oil money
> going to feeding and educating his people rather than maintaining the
> biggest army in the region? If America and Europe step in, that may
change.
> But the ony way it could have happened before was for the West to take
> over those countries and force a decent government on them. Something the
> whole remainder of the world would be up in arms about as they are now
with
> Iraq and Afghanistan. You can lead a horse to water, as they say, but you
> can't make him drink.
Listen I am gonna make a bold statement here, if two guys could kill about a
dozen people in a city like Washington and if the US/ the CIA is that keen
on removing Saddam from power why didn 't they hired a sniper and killed
the bastard with one shot !?
Oh yeah, the US was committed to rebuild Iraq !
There is a snag in this story !
There is still an European/ American drive to kolonize, but instead of con-
quering whole nations we impose our values upon them !
Moreover, within the democracies all over the world differences are due,
not yet one culture is alike, more than one system runs underneath the
whole set of democracies we know today. Which one will we impose
on the Iraqi people !?
We musn 't take our model of universalism for granted !
Kenneth
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