Archive for February 19th, 2007

Revolution or civil war in Guinea?

While the civil war in Iraq rages on, a similar situation is brewing in the African nation of Guinea.
See the NYT article:
Discontent in Guinea Nears Boiling Point
“Guinea, one of the last bastions of one-man rule, now seems on the verge of insurrection.”

Why don’t we send in Team America to help these insurgents topple their Saddamesque statues and set up a democracy? Maybe it’s because their dictator has been pro-Western. “By the end of the 1980’s, Guinea had become a reliably pro-Western redoubt, drawing investments in its rich trove of minerals, especially bauxite, an aluminum ore, of which Guinea is one of the world’s largest exporters.” Well, let’s see if the revolution is successful and if they then set up an Islamic state. Then, I predict that their revolution will show up on Empire’s radar and they’ll have some help from the CIA to teach them that civil war is a precondition for “democracy”.