The pinnacle of stupidity ("Peace in our time"...)
Path to political power: Attempt revolution and fail, retreat, dig in, and call for peace negotiations, then demand and be given given control over the police and military.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is stupid? Yet the Ivory Coast is doing just that in a French mediated "peace deal". I give the Ivory Coast three years until the Moslem rebels soon to be running the ministries of defense and interior impose Sharia law* and send the Ivory Coast into a dark age.
Does anyone else remember what happened after Nevil Chamberlain declared "Peace in our time"?
There can never be peace, only less war. All we can do is hold fast to what is right and not let insurgents and rebels win. What worth does life have without freedom?
* I couldn't care less how nice and peaceful academic Sharia law is, what matters it how it is practiced in "Muslim" nations today.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has returned to Abidjan after approving peace deal in Paris
to end his country's four-month civil war.
President Gbagbo is expected to speak to supporters later Monday.
On Saturday and Sunday, Abidjan was hit by waves of anti-French protests by government supporters who said France had imposed an unfair peace deal that gives too much power to rebels. Police had to fire tear gas to control mobs attacking the French embassy and other French institutions there.
In a televised appeal from Paris Sunday, Mr. Gbagbo urged calm, while in Abidjan a top army official called the accord "humiliating." It gives northern-based rebels control over the key ministries of Interior and Defense. President Gbagbo has named Seydou Diarra, a Muslim from the north, to be prime minister in the reconciliation government.
Meanwhile, the European Union has offered to donate more than $400 million in aid to Ivory Coast over the next five years, to help the country rebuild after the rebel uprising that started last September.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters. " from
VOAnews.com