The Americans Have LandedThe word came down suddenly in early January to the fifty or so U.S. troops stationed inside Camp Simba, a Kenyan naval base located on that country's sandy coast: Drop everything and pull everyone back inside the compound wire. Then they were instructed to immediately clear a couple acres of dense forest. Task Force 88, a very secret American special-operations unit, needed to land three CH-53 helicopters.
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Re the ever enlarging US military empire. Hasn't the United Nations questioned it?
Anyway, why the latest unit - AFRICOM? An article at the weekend talked of the connection between security and economics. The 'Esquire' article suggests on security that AFRICOM will have two dozen forts by 2012; and, on security/economics, over the next three decades (assuming Asia is pacified), only Africa will remain as a source for both youth-driven revolution and cheap labor and commodities.
Are interventions in African countries proposed? The UN have just approved R2P, which gives qualified approval to military intervention that prevents genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
But on economics again, a new book, How the bottom billion are trapped, proposes that the international community should intervene militarily in countries that need better economic governance. However economic mismanagement is not a reason for intervention yet - who knows where it would be needed if such a global rule set was ever agreed by the professions?
Posted by IJ | June 12, 2007 4:14 PM