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There has always been an understandable tendency among African Americans to dismiss bad news about Africa as racist lies. During the late '70s, for example, a certain civil rights leader tried to persuade black American professionals to lend support to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Reports that Amin had slaughtered tens of thousands of his people were brushed aside as inventions of the racist Western propaganda machine. The truth, of course, is that until Amin was chased into exile by Julius Nyerere's Tanzania, he was one of the most murderous tyrants the world has known. His country, once...
That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
...pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such occasion in 1977, while he was writing a crash cover on Uganda's Idi Amin, that Bill's wife Genevieve Wilson-Smith, then a TIME reporter-researcher, gave birth to their daughter Caroline...
...hitting Saddam, but that strategy does not resolve the deep moral questions of ordering someone's death. It is often argued that an assassination of Adolf Hitler before World War II might have saved tens of millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has given protection to the Palestinian group considered responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland? What level of evil deeds or threat to world peace justifies as asassination...
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