Welsh journalist and explorer of Africa who found Mr. Livingstone and was quoted as saying, "the savage only respects force, power, boldness and decision."

         Mapa del Mundo

Although it probably goes without saying in certain circles that someone has to teach the people of Africa about abstinence, still, you may be wondering what George W. Bush has been up to, giving so much money to the leaders of various African countries and dancing with women who have pictures of the American president printed on their bottoms.  As a friend of a friend has observed, GWB has done more for Africa than any other president in US history! 

However, if you are a citizen of Ghana you may not even know that "commercially significant" oil fields have been discovered off the coast of your country!  In fact, you may be as unaware as your friends the American people, caught up as they are in the dated and potentially damaging sexual exploits of a septegenarian Viet Nam Vet (see Washington Post, NY Times, lobbyist) or the social calendar of a Baptist minister's wife (see Vegas Hooter's), so that none of you noticed the creation of AFRICOM and the efforts by the above-mentioned GWB to get him some oil and military bases wit dat booty, baby!  Get down with your bad self indeed, Mr. President.  AFRICOM, which is mandated to be fully funded by September 2008, places all African charity and aid programs under the auspices of the Pentagon.  Which makes everything so much simpler, doesn't it?  No more of that slap-dash, hither-and-thither nonsense of doling out assistance by reckless rock and roll celebrities or bossy talk show hosts, no more of that beat-your-swords-into-ploughshares Peace Corps inefficiency.  If America is going to help our bruthas and sistahs it's going to be with gun-totin' troops and we're gonna get paid in crude, and you know what I'm talkin bout.

Because as the current regime knows, you gotta keep one step ahead of the mess you leave behind.  "You're doin' a heckuva job, Brownie," you say, and then don't stop, don't look back, don't pet the dog, just keep movin.  On to the next battlefield, the next cash crop, the next no-bid contract to your friends the Halliburtons in Dubai, and the next front on the global war against the Enemies of our Lord and Savior, Hallelujah! 

He got the whole world in his hands.  You know what I'm sayin?  

I know you do, baby.  So don't you be blamin' Bono-Obama-Bon-Jovi-Oprah for what dey up to down dere.  And don't you be goin' and thinkin' Miss Hilllary gonna change all dat neither.  Uh-uh.  She know what dat White Boy Neo-Con Crew be up to.   She smell what dey smokin. 

True dat.