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...proposed solution to its inefficacy doesn't include celebrity rock concerts or NGO sloganeering - an approach he broadly derides as "the headless heart." Perhaps most controversially, he argues for military intervention in civil conflicts, citing as an example the British army's decisive 2001 rout of Sierra Leone's vicious Revolutionary United Front, which was infamous for recruiting child soldiers and wantonly butchering civilians. These aggressive steps aren't just a moral imperative; they also make economic sense, since, Collier estimates, a failed state costs its neighbors an average of $64 billion in military spending and lost trade...
...Americans on another, women on another and so forth. There was never any common language of faith to appeal to those voters. "We walked away from the single institution most Americans turned to when they try to be better than they are," admits Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "It was a huge mistake...
Meanwhile, as the cocaine trade with Europe booms, the cartels have also spread into other African countries. "It's not just Guinea-Bissau," says Antonio Mazzitelli, West African director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is also Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and others" - countries, in other words, where the justice system has all but collapsed, where prisons are overcrowded, and where there are too few judges and courtrooms to provide efficient trials...
...desert about 125 km away and fled. Mauritanian police believe the scheme involves European dealers, and have questioned Belgian and French citizens. In early June, police in Belgium said they had cracked a cocaine network that had shipped about 350 kg in unchecked luggage through Brussels International Airport from Sierra Leone and Gambia. Airport staff apparently slipped the drugs into Europe without inspection, according to accounts by Belgian journalists...
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