When President Obama addressed the nation to explain WHY he had decided to utilize US military force in Africa, one of his chief rationales was that America couldn't sit by and allow a massacre to happen. He said there was a moral imperative to safeguard human life.
It has recently been discovered that a massacre took place anyway with upwards of 1,000 people killed in 3 days. The massacre didn't take place in Libya; it occurred in Ivory Coast.
If our president believes that our nation has a moral imperative to protect innocent life, why aren't we sending war planes to this southern African nation? Why haven't we sent military forces, bombs, planes or missiles to protect innocents in Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria or the Palestinian Territories?
As I and many others have noted before, all those nations (with the exception of Saudi Arabia, the despots who are our best buddies) lack the one ingredient that makes a moral imperative...well...truly imperative: oil.
Maybe the president should rethink his policy. While Ivory Coast doesn't have oil, it does possess two things very important to westerners: coffee and cocoa. If we could gain control of these two crops, we would at least make the folks at Starbucks and Hersheys very happy.
I bet it would make for some very nice campaign contributions come 2012. Whaddya say, Mr President? Freedom for chocolate!
It has recently been discovered that a massacre took place anyway with upwards of 1,000 people killed in 3 days. The massacre didn't take place in Libya; it occurred in Ivory Coast.
If our president believes that our nation has a moral imperative to protect innocent life, why aren't we sending war planes to this southern African nation? Why haven't we sent military forces, bombs, planes or missiles to protect innocents in Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria or the Palestinian Territories?
As I and many others have noted before, all those nations (with the exception of Saudi Arabia, the despots who are our best buddies) lack the one ingredient that makes a moral imperative...well...truly imperative: oil.
Maybe the president should rethink his policy. While Ivory Coast doesn't have oil, it does possess two things very important to westerners: coffee and cocoa. If we could gain control of these two crops, we would at least make the folks at Starbucks and Hersheys very happy.
I bet it would make for some very nice campaign contributions come 2012. Whaddya say, Mr President? Freedom for chocolate!
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