High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
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I saw some pics of South Sudan, it is very raw with very little infrastrucure, their Military are mainly militiamen who have been fighting the North for decades. They will need to start from the ground up, invest in education, job training, quality of life, etc. since they have oil, the foreign investment will be there. People won't ignore them like Somalia and the Ivory Coast because of that.
And also they want South Sudan to do well. They wanted all of Sudan to do well, but clearly Bashy old boy was having none of that with his imposition of Sharia Law and the Arabic language.
This will be so much better than the years of civil wars. The South will have its protection from the horde and the West will add it as another bastion against the horde. Thus will it be supported.
So, it is in interesting times that we watch HG. I also enjoy wondering about this "democracy" movement in the ME. It's quickly becoming clearer though.
The US Africa commmand, AFRICOM, needs a central base in Africa, right now they are based in Stuttgart Germany. Hopefully South Sudan can be that area, because if they get AFRICOM headquarters there they will get alot of financial rewards and incentives, not to mention Military help and training for them to get started. I started a thread for South Sudan on the Africa boards, I am rooting for them to do well.