Face the brutal facts. Africa has gone down the tubes since the 1960s wave of independence. As the Euros stoped their direct exploitation and flushed their colonies, Western intellectuals infected Africa with the socialist, elitist meme. You new African countries should adopt socialism, not capatalism. And true democracy is not important. Instead good socialist leaders unfettered by the annoyances (checks and balances) of democracy is the proper way to go. What happened? Agricultural productivity plummeted, just like in Russia after Stailn socialized the farms and starved millions. Massive food exporters like the former Rhodesia are instead devistated by starvation. A bad situation further exacerbated by the unscientific, Euro ban on gen engineered crops. A ban that leads those countries to refuse American food aid for fear of alienating future Euro markets, countries dominated by strong agricultural union interests.

Now we have Euro countries, France et. al. asking the US to intervene militarily in Liberia. Why can't the EU intervene militarily? Oh, I forgot, all their $ goes to social transfer payments that their populace has voted for themselves and they can't afford a military. Yet these world class hypocrites propose a "unilateral" US intervention without a UN Security Council "mandate". Lovely. Where is the criticism of such proposed action? After all there are no WMDs, no Islamofascists, etc. Ah, I see. Humanitarian grounds. You know, the reason we couldn't use for Iraq.

Africa is a mess. Billions and billions in aid over the decades of independance and nothing but a string of failures and worsening productivity. The root of this is the failed paradigms of the left.