If he just asked then nothing wrong with that. But if he forces that on them that would be very costly on the part of the US. Africa is the buyer here, choosing between US and China. China offers better terms so they might as well go with China. US? Well they have AFRICOM LOL.
Hmm... read my latest post about the part that talks about africa. And about libya, those terrrorists or what not where just a natural reaction to US intervention in Libya and Libya produces light, sweet crude which is superior to most heavy, sulfur-rich sour crude oil. Light, sweet crude oil is so fine already that once it goes out of the well you only need to refine it with little effort or sometimes you can directly use it in your internal combustion engine! That is why light sweet crude oil is so expensive because it is so easy to process and it has the least amount of impurities of all types of crude oil. And the rest is history.
For the MNLF, it was just a reaction to US imperialism. Unfortunately we the philippines are caught in the cross fire.

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pak88
I am reacting to your post that "Obama chooses to bring his pro-gay advocacy to other nations such as africa." As I said, Obama just asked African nations to decriminalize homosexuality. What is wrong with that? Being jailed and beaten up because you are gay is just plain immoral.
IMHO, it is not right for a country to look another way if a crime is being committed on a massive scale. The U.S. has the moral obligation to stop atrocities from being committed being in the position to do so. Sadly, after the debacle in Mogadishu, the U.S. did not step to stop in the quagmire in Rwanda because the public would not support it.
It clearly made a mistake in Iraq but it was the religious conservatives in the Bush administration's fault. But everybody knows that Libya used to sponsor the MNLF and numerous other organizations, when they were still engaged in terrorism.
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Read my earlier post. And it is not any countries right to interfere in how they run their governments. Please look at the track record of america, they said Iraq was harboring WMDs, libya was financing terrorists, etc. but in the end it was all about their interests.
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