Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Blackwater Founder Wants Africa Recolonized" video.

Australian here: A number of years ago I was in a taxi in Sydney. Australian taxi drivers come form all over the world and they are a great source of basic information on places the media never report on. This particular taxi driver was from Liberia and I asked him "Liberia's a country we don't hear much about and what we do hear is mostly bad. So what happened?" He basically said when the French were in control it was basically developing and reasonably civil because they kept the various tribal issues in check. Then one day they just got up and left but handed all the weapons over to 1 tribe who then went on a rampage." The biggest problem with Africa is Europeans split the continent up according to what they wanted and that often upset the balances between the existing tribes and their boundaries. The most notable instance of this is in Namibia where there is the Caprivi Strip (in the North East). This strip exists because of a deal the Germans made with the British so that Germany could have access to the Zambezi River and a route to Africa's east coast, where the colony of German East Africa (now part of Tanzania). Its all detailed on Wikipedia. That strip runs right through the middle of several traditional homelands of different tribes. Those tribes now have parts of their homelands in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The European colonial era made a mess of Africa from which Africa has NEVER RECOVERED. Americans should be the last to talk about this stuff considering they ignored the advice some of their own people gave before they invaded Iraq in 2003. Eric Shinseki to congress in a public hearing that not only was Iraq a significant amount of geography to cover but there were ethnic/tribal conflicts with centuries of feuding and violent history.
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Australian here - we know who Eric Prince is and we know what sort of person he is. He is everything America needs to wake up to regarding what went on during the Bush-Cheney years. One of these days America will need to accept what it let people like him get away with.
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@Falcon2609 When he's mouthing off about central America somebody should remind him of all the dictators in that region that the CIA put in place and supported. One of the reasons why Noriega was snatched and locked away was because he had all the dirt on them. What Noriega didn't have was back-up plan in case something happened and the information would get out anyway.
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@Falcon2609 I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). One of my college mates spent time in Central America while doing his PhD which was in "How to teach teachers to teach foreign languages" and his main (after English) language was Spanish. In one case (early 90s) the State Department made the arrangements and he was in a luxury villa in a small town in one of the Central American countries. Its been years so I can't recall the exact details but this is as close as I can recall what happened. One day he woke up to what he said was a scene out of Hollywood film. The house was full of immaculately dressed soldiers with mirrored sunglasses and pristine American made M16s. He was invited to have breakfast with Person 'X.' During breakfast 'X' asked him about the town and if he was being treated well to which he said "very well." 'X' then asked if he had any questions to which he sad "No" so 'X' prodded him with something like "I know there's that one question every American wants to ask someone in my position and they should ask." So my friend as tactfully as he could asked about human rights. Person 'X' said words to the effect "That's the question every American should ask and he'd answer it as soon as America wants to discuss what they'd done in Countries A, B, C,......." The crazy part of that is that I have heard people from the small nations surrounding Australia in the Pacific say very similar things about Australia. So I know (99% certain) there's things our countries do that we would never approve of. We don't discuss things and we should.
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@Falcon2609 never forget Noriega claimed he was a CIA asset and his men were trained in America, but then we didn't hear much after that.
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@chriszanf 100% agreed on that and YEAH I know what the French Reference means. Have you ever seen the TED talk "Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action" by John Perkins or any of the other talks he's given? Eric Prince is what happens when people don't agree with the options people like John Perkins gave them.
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@ernstraedecker6174 Sorry my mistake I it was over 10 years ago and I thought it was the country Charles Taylor was in charge of which was Liberia. It was definitely West African and it was definitely the French who left.
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@sereanaduwai8313 Check the other reply it wasn't Liberia. It was over 10 years ago I had that conversation. It was certainly West Africa and it was the French.
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@uchenna127 Go see the other comments I got the country wrong. It was over 10 years ago I had that conversation. But it was a West African country and it was the French who left maniacs in charge. My mistake was thinking it was the same country Charles Taylor was in charge of.
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@allenbrown3974 Pleas seek medical help for whatever TF is wrong with you.
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@chriszanf Do you know the amazing thing about the whole Superman line of "I'm here for Truth, Justice and the American Way." If you think about that it means that "the American Way" does not include either Truth or Justice. If Truth and Justice were part of the American Way then why did they need to be mentioned at all other than its kind of poetic? I just find it amusing that it implies the American Way doesn't include Truth or Justice.
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@epic6434 WTF are you talking about with either reply. Go read what you wrote and see if you make sense. Maybe English isn't your first language.
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