US token measures in Liberia.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor) From: New African | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 IC Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of," so counsels Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac.

Liberia is in a quagmire. For more than a decade now the country has been embroiled in a mindless civil war that has resulted in deaths of many innocent civilians. In the meantime, Washington, a historical ally, deliberates in the midst of token measures.

Ultimately, questions must be asked of Liberia and Africa. Who cries when African children are pulverised, their mothers raped, and their fathers butchered? Why does the West, ...