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Originally Posted by MTVN
It's a country which has been plagued for decades by civil wars, famine, immense poverty and rampant ethnic strife. They're unlikely to be able to rid themselves of such things of their own accord even if the intention was there, so it's a choice between turning our backs on it and just having it go on and on or actually try and assist some sort of reconciliation process in whichever way possible
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How do we do that? How do we intervene? More soldier's lives in an endless, unwinnable war? The Muslims in that country turning it in to an endless, unwinnable
holy war?
In a perfect world the UN should be able to step in, get rid of whoever's in charge and keep the country ticking over till they can organise themselves, have a fair election and get themselves on their feet again. But the UN is a useless, expensive, toothless, ball-less waste of time.
The government there has no qualms about killing, starving and generally mistreating its people, and we reward that behaviour with more cash. I don't know what the answer is, but paying their government to continue this madness is in itself, madness.