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Friday, July 29, 2005
Severe Famine in Niger
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he Western world is not interested in the fate of hundreds of thousands of people starving to death in Niger. Nor were they interested (except where they could make money by selling weapons or devilish expertise) in all the other massacres, genocides, lootings, savagery, psychopathic dictatorships, child slavery and slaughters, tortures, famines or even cannibalism of the recent past in African countries.
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he reason is that Western governments are interested in power. And that's all. They want to stay elected. And their voters are interested in their oil supplies, travel, pleasures, taxes, and not much else. They are not interested in a country that they see as completely separate from their existence.
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he West has sat happily by the side of the road, sunning itself in the breeze, as children, villages, and entire societies are wiped out, not centuries ago, but today, this morning, and this afternoon.
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hey will continue to sit and do nothing because they feel the Africans' problems are isolated. They have not yet reached a state of evolution where they share all humanity's suffering.
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o those individuals who understand that the failure or pain of one of us is the failure or pain of us all, even hearing of the unspeakable acts committed in these countries is spiritually unbearable.
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he West can wring its hands all it wants, but if pushed, it will have to say it couldn't care less, and will continue to be disinterested until the problems arrive on their doorstep, at which point they will spark off the usual cycle of military destruction followed by humble "time-to-move-on" speeches.
No oil = no interest.
Posted by fm on July 29, 2005 at 03:25 PM