At 5/12/12 09:44 AM, Saren wrote: he is a coward and a communist and he is overrated i fucking hate that guy

I totally agree. I hate people that wear his shirts or have his posters in their room.

At 5/10/12 03:20 PM, bismuthfeldspar wrote: All these countries are wartorn and undeveloped, what happens in Afghanistan gives insights into what happens in Sudan, Somalia and the Congo.

Not sure how you can't see how they are related.

The difference is that Afghanistan has been invaded by two super powers in the last 40 years, it's gone from a Republic to Communism to a Fundamentalist state in the space of 30 years on its own. Sudan isn't like that, while its outlying provinces aren't stable like Darfur and the seceded South Sudan it's main provinces are stable. It's basically like the Yugoslavia debacle but in Africa. The Congo is completely different to the rest, whereas Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia were stable for the late 1900's it became unstable soon after it was given independence.