I agree terrorism in any country should be stamped out but its going to be an impossible job in Nigeria with well over 80 million Muslims in the country if 0.1% were radicals & possible terrorists you would be looking for 80,000 potential bombers & terrorists in other words an impossible task to police for any country let alone Nigeria.

Leave them to it - it has nothing to do with us.

that's a point Naydam

Oh no! we cant leave them to it moisock....we have to help Good Luck out here

I don't think we ever did much good for Africa...basically exploited them

although not everybody did, some people did go out there to genuinely try and help them

I think I would done that in some role, perhaps a farmer ,civil service or something

I would have seen them as children we must help,...very paternalistic and racist probably

I still see them a bit like that, so like Gordon Brown, I feel we must help them

and these Boko Harem chappies...they are really not nice at all

I agree. But the FIRST help that you've got to give 'em is to teach them to STOP breeding children that are going to die of starvation!
And WE must stop keeping them all alive just so that they can breed MORE children to starve to death!
Many of the starving population are a direct result of well-meaning interventions which only seek to cure the symptoms and not the cause of the problem.
How many starving children are there who would never have been born into misery if some stupid do-gooders didn't keep interfering with the balance of nature.

Is it just me or is anybody else struggling to shake off the image of ebulGery, clad only in a pith helmet, simmering away in a great big pot on an open fire surrounded by whooping natives?

I did not say it was easy Naydam

and of course there is a very dark side to Africa I am afraid ..bad thing happen there

humanity at its worst I am afraid

I still feel a need to salvage them, but I don't know how tbh??????????????

a culling of everybody who wears tracksuit bottoms, but doesnt run or play any sport, would be a cracking start.

nearly 60 years ago I accompanied my mother gathering up the little envelopes for save the children

I think that says it all!!

you are a decent chap Moisock who feels  the dissolutionment  of it all

We did exploit, but we did try to help them as well

but we never quite got the savage out of them did we

for some reason I still feel the need to try to help?????????????????????

our colonial natures, who knows

disillusionment I should say moisok

The British were pretty savage when they opened fire on spectators at a sporting event at Croke Park in Dublin in retaliation for attacks on the infamous 'black & tan'!

Too true cits,

For centuries, India's poor, had large families in the hope enough of them would survive to look after them in their old age. There was no welfare state, no pensions, no nursing homes, without children to support them and not capable of earning a living they starved unless lucky enough to be taken in be the odd charity.

No historical knowledge. An inability to see human beings as less advantaged than themselves, and no empathy for the suffering or in deed those who are prepared to leave home family and friends and go to a foreign country in the brave attempt to make life for themselves & families just a little more bearable.

That's UKippers!

not advocating full scale military interventio

It was unfair of me to say the savage seems to lurk

They are a tribal race, we Europeans stuck them in boundaries which rather ignored this

so it is not surprising they always seem to be at war

Also some of the interior parts of Africa were cut off from the rest of the world

..they have a bit of catching up to do

although there is evidence of ancient civilizations in some parts,


We were tribal once, King Alfred introduced us to the idea of nationhood,

anyway the wars we rage there is a lot of the savage remains in us

perhaps Joseph's Conrad's novel 'Heart OF Darkness', influenced by comment as well

The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes

on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism.

. As Kurtz dies, Marlow hears him weakly whisper: “The horror! The horror!”

The film Apocalypse Now is based on this

with Marlon Brando the Kurtz like figure, a man who commits atrocities

but is also desensitized by the horrors he has seen

I wish I had a slave to clean my house

I have gone off the colonial idea after clousseas vision of me in a cooking pot

Slavery was considered quite normal at one time by everybody

Nobody know can apologise for slavery unless they have actually owned one themselves

we cannot apologise for somebody else

I think the problem is that in the past we justified exploiting people on the grounds we were more civilized

some people objected to this

But as I pointed out earlier some people still tried to help these people in good faith

I think if I had lived then I may have been such a person, hopefully I would not have been eaten for my troubles

Often in the more backward parts of the world..I can believe slavery may still exist

and there are always some of us, who like to force vulnerable girls and women in prostitution

for their own financial game...they are a commodity like everything else.

I have no problems with prostitution as long as the women do it voluntarily

otherwise I would object, as the decent among us should do, you do moisok, it does you credit