From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Aug 12 2009 - 23:05:50 EDT
"The message of our government to Ms Clinton should be: "Yanks go home
and take your troops with you."
Yankees go home
Published: 2009/08/12 07:25:04 AM
Hillary Clinton's visit to SA has put US foreign policy in the spotlight
once more. Despite a lot of messages of hope from US President Barack
Obama, there has been little change in US military action in major
theatres of war.
The Americans' overt and covert involvement in the Horn of Africa and
the presence of Africom in Djibouti continue to destabilise the region,
with no commitment evident to withdraw their troops from Ethiopia.
And yet Ms Clinton would like to tell the Kenyan and South African
governments how to run their affairs and lobby for military support in
the Somali conflict. The African Union (AU) has already told the US to
withdraw its troops from Africa, but to date they continue to covertly
support conflict, on a continent where they have a very bad track record
in military terms.
And now the US secretary of state attempts to justify the establishment
of US military bases on African soil. Any development of this nature has
to be opposed by the AU at all costs.
America's only interest in the African continent is the control of oil
supplies, hence their involvement in the Sudan. No US president has
visited any African country in the past 10 years that was not an oil or
gas producer and supplier.
The role of the US government and the CIA in the Angolan, Congolese and
Somali wars has wreaked untold havoc on the lives of millions of African
civilians. And yet the US continues to pursue with force its disastrous
policies on a continent where it has no business or mandate from the
United Nations to be at all.
Since the US has proven itself to be a morally bankrupt nation with its
illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps it should think seriously
about getting its own house in order, before prescribing to African
countries and lobbying support for their indefensible wars of
aggression.
The message of our government to Ms Clinton should be: "Yanks go home
and take your troops with you."
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=78301
Anthony Howard
Editors SA - Illovo
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