Sunday, January 06, 2008

AFRICOM

The new command has had bipartisan political backing -- who could question the idea of taking Africa more seriously?

-David Ignatius
Insofar as the phrase retains any real meaning in the American idiom, let me suggest that it is possible to take something seriously without a garrison.

Posted by IOZ at 10:07 AM | email »
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Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes said...

As an old soldier, I notice that the primary peace dividend of the end of the cold war has been more wars, in far more pestilential places, for lower stakes, with higher mortality rates for all involved. And, I'm not sure why anyone needs to take Africa seriously. Contemplating the disaster that extends from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope makes me wonder why in the hell I stopped drinking...AIDS, Ebola, Malaria, Sleeping Sickness, Denial, Inter-tribal warfare, Evangelical Christians, Kleptocratic insanity, Mugabe...maybe I need to drink more and then I'll see an upside.

1:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Word.

2:01 PM
Anonymous said...

that is, word to ioz, not to whatever the hell is trying to be said above

yes drink more

2:02 PM
TGGP said...

I am for not taking Africa seriously at all. From hereon all U.S government officials shall refer to it at as Bongo Bongo Land.

3:17 PM
Anonymous said...

I think the adverb "seriously" is superfluous - if we just say that there's a bipartisan consensus to "take Africa" then the very first definition in our Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary explains it quite clearly -

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/take

transitive verb

1: to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: as a: to seize or capture physically - 'took them as prisoners' b: to get possession of (as fish or game) by killing or capturing

See?


---charley, ph.d.

7:09 PM
Violet said...

tggp -

Thanks for the funny map - here's a more readable copy of it:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=231354631&size=o

9:38 PM

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