{"id":187702,"date":"2011-03-30T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/30\/meanwhile-in-the-humitarian-disaster-not-involving-oil\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:43:00","slug":"meanwhile-in-the-humitarian-disaster-not-involving-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/30\/meanwhile-in-the-humitarian-disaster-not-involving-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, In the Humitarian Disaster Not Involving Oil\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to The Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, where forces supporting the guy who won the election, Alassane Ouattara, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/mar\/30\/ivory-coast-rebels-ouattara-gbagbo\">taken the capital, Yamoussoukro<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Rebel forces in Ivory Coast have taken control of the official capital, as power seems to be slipping away from the president, Laurent Gbagbo.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and military sources said troops loyal to Gbagbo&#8217;s rival, Alassane Ouattara, had entered Yamoussoukro, meeting little resistance as security forces fled. The port city of San Pedro also fell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been going on for<b> how<\/b> many months now, (Hint: it&#8217;s been 5) and hot a hint of anyone wanting to intervene, because, of course, they don&#8217;t have oil.<\/p>\n<p>So you have two African leaders, both without much in the way of support, who are oppressing their opponents and the general population, but the one that is a mid-level oil producer gets the full NATO bombing treatment, while the world&#8217;s leading exporter of cocoa gets some minor finger wagging in the general assembly of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit of oil we spend blood and treasure on, but a <b>lot<\/b> of chocolate, that ain&#8217;t worth nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about screwed up priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring, of course, to The Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, where forces supporting the guy who won the election, Alassane Ouattara, have taken the capital, Yamoussoukro: Rebel forces in Ivory Coast have taken control of the official capital, as power seems to be slipping away from the president, Laurent Gbagbo. Residents and military sources &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,981,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-war","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}