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This moral inconsistency on genocide is nothing new. In 1994, having recently suffered losses in Somalia, the American political establishment had no interest in starting other human rights expeditions in Africa—so it dithered while the Rwandan genocide was being perpetrated. At State Department press briefings, officials refused to acknowledge that genocide was occurring, despite internal documents clearly stating that it was. This spineless denial delayed the placement of U.N. troops that could have averted the bloody 100 days during which Hutu militias slaughtered at least 800,000 Tutsi citizens. Intervention was simply politically inconvenient...
...Some, like Sachs, might say that allowing people from destitute places to migrate doesn’t help them where it counts: at home. This Washington Consensus logic asserts that immigration-friendly policies prevent poor states from developing their own economic infrastructure. But perhaps we should care less about Somalia and El Salvador and more about Somalis and Salvadoreños. What citizens of developing countries have as a comparative advantage is cheap labor and little else because of geographical constraints and entrenched, frozen financial and legal institutions. Individuals should be permitted to work in countries with aging and picky...
...Because of the failed-state status of Somalia, the international community needs to take strong actions to curb piracy before the situation gets out of hand...
...third country in the territorial waters of a fourth country. The British Foreign Office has concluded that holding pirates indefinitely can infringe on their human rights and give them a case for asylum. But, at the same time, the British also can’t return them to Somalia, where they would face harsh punishment under Shariah law, which would violate the British Human Rights Act. This situation presents an obvious need for an international court for the express purpose of trying pirates and other individuals outside of typical national jurisdictions...
What with the world economy in the throes of a precipitous slowdown and even Africa's crisis agenda now dominated by the upheavals in eastern Congo and the exploits of Somalia's pirates, it's easy to forget all about Zimbabwe - which is exactly what President Robert Mugabe may be hoping will happen. Mugabe and his inner circle have doggedly fought to maintain absolute control over Zimbabwe, despite having agreed on Sept. 15 to share power with the opposition, in order to resolve the political crisis resulting from the ruling party's refusal to accept the results of the March...