The Case for Caring Now
By Fred Hiatt (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/03/06):
On one of her visits to her native Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told a joint session of Congress last week, she was placed in a jail cell with 15 men. "All of them were executed a few hours later," she said. "Only the intervention of a single soldier spared me from rape."
Now Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, is the newly elected president of her unhappy African country, and if you think she was trying to seize Congress's attention with that anecdote of 20 years past, you are no doubt correct.
After all, the world is full of unhappy countries that have won sympathy here, and then been rapidly discarded.… Seguir leyendo »