Charles Taylor & Liberia 2003 - a history of US intervention

andrew
Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:21:48 +0000
Africa, Humanitarian interventionism, USA, Imperialism, International, Newspaper, Analysis, Chekov Feeney

Every so often the newspapers fill with stories of a crisis in some third world country. We see pictures on our screens of gunmen, starvation and suffering; inevitably we hear calls for humanitarian intervention. Over the summer, we were told of a crisis in Liberia. A brutal civil war, a corrupt leader, child soldiers, starving civilians: it seemed that the whole world was crying out for intervention by the US or UN.