Hey deeceethree - I'm in DR Congo right now, and have been for the last 2.5 years. Tell me why, if America is such a dictatorship, how virtually every Congolese person would love a US passport. You really don't know fortunate we are in the west until you have lived amidst the filth/unemployment/mininal life improvement hope that makes up the country that these unfortunate people call home.
Double shame on you as since you claim to have lived in challenging parts of Africa, you should understand that better. Oh yes - you were probably part of the elite colonial upper-class, who dined on $25 filet mignon entrees while the waiter who served you didn't even have running water at home. You probably had about 15 servants at home, lived a life of leisure, playing tennis at the Belgian club, and you parents probably had lucrative jobs from foreign resource exploiting firms or the colonial government. Now, when you're not flying your B747 -licences paid for by Daddy- out of LHR, you probably sip lattes with your flaming liberal friends, talking about how evil GWB or whatever right wing western ruler-du-jour is, blissfully ignorant of so much in this world and how good we in America really have it. I'd take Bush, Bush Sr, or Reagan, over whatever tinpot dictator is ruling Angola. In America - you have a chance in life to do whatever you want. Or, you can preach what you practice and go fly a B727 for Hewa Bora or TAAG or whatever craphole airline du jour is flying around Nigeria. They might even take you as a DEC :-)
Last edited by JTrain; 22nd June 2008 at 10:02.