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When "Disasterous Foreign Policy" Is An Understatement
In today's Washington Post there's an article World Bank Lists Failing Nations That Can Breed Global Terrorism showing just successful this little Global War on Terror has been so far.
How successful you may ask? Thanks in part to our foreign policy (or lack there of) in only the past 3 years the World Bank's list of "fragile" countries increased all the way to 26 from 17. According to the World Bank, fragile countries are where "deepening poverty puts them at risk from terrorism, armed conflict and epidemic disease."
Read more after the break.
Among the countries where "Past international engagement with these countries has failed to yield significant improvements" according to the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group are Sudan, Somalia and of course that forgotten land, Afghanistan. The administration's "Let's Ignore Africa" policy has helped to contribute to eight of the 14 new countries on the list being from the continent.
The article goes on to add that, "The administration's updated counterterrorism strategy, published earlier this month, set economic development in `failing states or states emerging from conflict" as a key objective.'" Well I guess better late than never.
Willful Ignorance
We've become experts at ignoring the root causes of our problems and going after the results instead. Some people accuse this administration of just being ignorant of these factors (like poor economy acting as a catalyst for terrorism), but I think it's much more sinister than that. I don't think they have much interest in combating terrorism, or in governing in general, unless there's something in it for them.
Bush and Africa
For all the many, many things that the Bush administration has mangled, I have to say that its Africa policy isn't entirely one of them. Although their disinclination to fund condom programs is ridiculous to the point of sickening, the administration did create the Millennium Challenge Account and helped to expand AGOA (which Clinton signed into law at the end of his term.) Sadly, no American president has a spotless record when it comes to Africa -- Clinton very much included. Bush has actually been an improvement in some ways.
That said, Bush hasn't exerted any extraordinary leadership when it comes to Africa either, and that's what Africa needs at this point. It can't be a topic that only comes up when it's time for a photo-op, and it can't be a topic that garners real attention only in terms of the so-called War on Terror. And, of course, Bush has harmed America's global image broadly speaking, which harms the efforts of American NGOs who are doing good work with the US government's support. Africa is a key example of how America's foreign policy over the past several decades has been irresponsible, and it's an opportunity to prove that moral fiber that politicians are always going on about.
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