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...less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural masses coalescing on the outskirts of monstrous megacities across the global south. As per capitalist logic, their inability to compete with large-scale commercial enterprises has demanded their demise. Yet, according to Samir Amin??s calculations, “in 50 years’ time, industrial development, even in the fanciful hypothesis of a continued growth rate of seven percent annually, could not absorb even one-third of this reserve...
...Last King of Scotland” recounts the terror of Idi Amin??s dictatorship. Amin attempts to keep the crown certain by eliminating any threats, but this, paradoxically, only increases his constituents’ desire to change leaders. Shakespeare understood this well, as readers of “Julius Caesar,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III” can attest. “All the King’s Men” shows the rise and fall of a charismatic populist unable to handle the mechanisms...
...taste. Only a hint of capriciousness foreshadows his insane dictatorship. Whitaker’s charistmatic portrayal never wavers, but his character fades from charming to terrifying. McAvoy holds his own against Whitaker, solidly portraying an inherently weak character. Garrigan is an unheroic protagonist, who struggles as much to accept Amin??s evil as he does to act on his moral misgivings. Garrigan finds himself fallen into a world of moral relativism, highlighted by the character of Nigel Stone (Simon McBurney, “Friends With Money”), a British statesman. Stone is a slimy diplomat whose rhetoric...
...impotence that prevents it from taking a meaningful role in many humanitarian efforts. The U.N. has rarely committed itself to large efforts and has failed to stop major human rights atrocities in the five decades following World War II—including the killing fields of Cambodia and Idi Amin??s terror in Uganda to name only a few. Vague Security Council mandates cause U.N. action to be confined to arbitrary rules and confounded goals. In its 1993 intervention in Somalia, for instance, the U.N. dedicated itself to feeding a nation under the grasp of warlords and then...
Many such conflicts that the U.N. ignored or botched were settled by internal or multilateral action, largely without U.N. assistance. The Khmer Rouge was destroyed by a Vietnamese invasion; the U.N. dared to step in only after 28 years of oppression. Idi Amin??s rule, during which as many as 300,000 people died, ended when the Tanzanian military invaded on humanitarian and political motives. In the former Yugoslavia, the U.S.-sponsored Dayton Accords—unaffiliated with the U.N.—ended the conflict. The world has a lot more reason to thank the United States...