Congo
Stuart Stevens’ Shady Past Clients, Revealed
The Horror, The Horror
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa By Jason K. Stearns (PublicAffairs, 380 pp., $28.99) READ MORE >>
Can Africa Really Help Libya Find Peace?
Libya: Should Moral Consistency Matter?
Many critics of the Libyan intervention make their case based on moral consistency: We didn't intervene in Congo or Zimbabwe, so why are we intervening here? My former colleague Peter Beinart, writing at The Daily Beast, answers: READ MORE >>
On Morals and Facts
[Guest post by James Downie] READ MORE >>
We Intervene
The Libya Question Is Only About Libya
There's an argument against intervention in Libya that I keep seeing over and over. Here, for instance, is Andrew Sullivan: READ MORE >>
Obama Thought America Could Do Without Europe. Well, Europe May Think It Can Do Without America.
This is my rather crude way of putting John Vinocur's subtle answer to the question he posed yesterday in his "Politicus" column in the International Herald Tribune: "Could U.S. lose Europe to Russia?" Of course, Obama cares mightily about the Third World. The Third World is a mess, an unholy mess, and it's about time that someone make this argument clearly rather than let it linger as an unspoken and mischievous truth. READ MORE >>
It's Time to Hold Rwanda Accountable for its War Crimes
The Senegalese poet Birago Diop once wrote that the dead are not really dead. They live on in the wind, forests, and rivers, their pleas for justice echoing among the living. So it is today in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than five million people have been killed in the world’s deadliest conflict since World War II. READ MORE >>
“Nowhere Else In The World Has The U.N. Invested So Much And Accomplished So Little:” A Four Day Rape Rampage In The Congo
The New York Times story is by Jeffrey Gettleman, one of our great narrative journalists. You will cry or maybe retch at the story he tells. This happens not to be a story of rape by U.N. “peacekeepers.” But it is a story of the blue helmets standing by while unspeakable and rapacious violence was being done to the vulnerable and undefended. READ MORE >>
