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Re: Doctors underestimate our intelligence/knowled » ronaldo

Posted by Squiggles on November 18, 2006, at 10:39:52

In reply to Re: Doctors underestimate our intelligence/knowled » Squiggles, posted by ronaldo on November 18, 2006, at 10:09:44

> > And remember that thousands of people in underdeveloped countries, are dying from diseases with absolutely no medications or medical attendance. Just go to WHO to check out the situation in these countries.
>
> > Squiggles
>
> Hello Squiggles,
>
> One might also remember the position/condition these countries were in some fifty years ago when there was peace, order and the rule of law. They could not get rid of their colonial masters quick enough. Take Zimbabwe for one example; take the AIDS situation in South Africa for another. I might have more sympathy for the plight of the third world if Zimbabwe had treated her white farmers with more compassion and respect. They were after all the country's bread winners and bread providers...
>
> ...ronaldo

Ronaldo,

I don't know much about the politics of this
transition -- maybe they were better off under
a "benevolent" babysitter; but you can't treat
people like refugees in their own country. That things got worse is just unfortunate, not something to be reversed to colonialism.

Anyway, there are many other countries whose medical systems sucks, mainly because of poverty and ignorance. When the West intervenes to clean things up, there isn't necessarily an improvment.

Squiggles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_involvement_in_Rhodesia


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