Stay Out Of Liberia, by Charlie Reese

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CHARLIE REESE
For Monday, July 14, 2003


Stay Out Of Liberia

By the time you read this, the president will probably have made the decision to send or not send troops to Liberia. I hope he has chosen not to send the troops.

Let's clear the intellectual debris away from this subject. The fact that the American government played some role in establishing Liberia in the 19th century does not in any way obligate America in the 21st century to clean up the mess the Liberians have made in their own country.

There are no foreign invaders in Liberia. The people who have been killing, mutilating and brutalizing Liberians are Liberians. President Bush will not have any problem finding bad guys. His problem will be finding good guys. The people opposed to the present president, Charles Taylor, are just as bad as he is.

So just what will our troops do? Shoot Liberians on a random basis? Disarm all the factions? Stay in the country indefinitely to keep the Liberians from cutting each other's throats? Install a new dictator more to our liking? That's probably what will happen if we get involved. Furthermore, no matter how much we spend, no matter how many lives we lose, none of it will benefit the American people one iota.

The Constitution, the supreme law of our land, does not authorize the federal government to create a global police .........

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