How would you help Liberia?

[dammitgibs]

If you want us to the worlds plumber, electrician, farmer, doctor, etc...then you have to allow us to be the world police too.

 

[StageLeft]

I find this a perfect time to advise with the utmost urging people to check out "Operation Certain Death". It's a book written about a hostage situation in Sierra Leone a decade ago, a non-fiction but story-like narrative of an event there. Within it you can read of some other acts that some people in that area of the world do, worse perhaps than the creators of the Saw movies could think of.

 

[Ozoned]

When I was a little boy playing cowboys and Indians, I shot a man driving by my house in a car. He fell over his wheel and sped away dead.

That was years ago and I have traveled thousands of miles, but I still remember and now you know the story too. You will do something kind for somebody somewhere, enter into their world and touch them and it will bounce and bounce and bounce all the way to Liberia.

It's okay to say you don't know. There's lots of other folks posting in this thread that are way smarter than you that say they don't know either.

 

[Hacp]

The only way to save any of these places is to bring back colonialism. That way, rich nations like the US can bring law and order to the poorer ones while extracting their minerals and oils. Its a win-win. However, colonialism has apparently gone out of fashion, so we should leave the people to their own fate.

 

[Carmen813]

My first step would be being able to find it on a map.

 

[Jaskalas]

I don't run things so my opinion doesn't matter.

We'd best close P&N then.

 

[JEDIYoda]

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-liberia

First hand accounts of war, squalor, rape, and even cannibalism.

My reaction is that there is really no civilization here. An external force really needs to just come in and enforce some basic laws: only crap in certain designated areas (not on the beach), no killing, no raping, no stealing (aka basic property rights). Let family structures come back along with basic security and maybe something more advanced can develop.


PS I really recommend the video. It's not boring or preachy. It's entertaining. For god's sake, there's a former warlord named "Butt naked" who describes the best parts of human flesh to eat.

I don`t know what part of the word moron applies to you but this topic is totally bogus....
You would do well to watch the documentary the Iron lady of Liberia!
You nwould also do well to research your fact before putting them on ATOT...
Iron lady hailed for progress!
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=86&art_id=qw1168987680394B241
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/ironladies/
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/ironladies/film.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4395978.stm


We should do nothing in that country except support the current administration!!

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Why would anyone stick a standing army in a situation where they have to play police and then end up being as hated if not more hated then the warlords and other dregs of human waste causing problem in that nation. There is no way to deal with such a situation unless you are willing to give the generals leading a venture into a free pass to do what they have to do unopposed/unhindered to fix that shit hole of a country. Anything less would be throwing good military men and women into a meat grinder for no reason whatsoever other then maybe someone suffering from a bleeding heart.

 

[IGBT]

more guns and bullets.

 

[Moonbeam]

It's okay to say you don't know. There's lots of other folks posting in this thread that are way smarter than you that say they don't know either.

Can you point to one person who posted who said they don't know?