{"id":197265,"date":"2008-02-19T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/africom-move-to-africa-abandoned\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:33:00","slug":"africom-move-to-africa-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/africom-move-to-africa-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Africom Move to Africa Abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Military&#8217;s new Africa Command (Africom) was to have been relocated from Germany to an African nation, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7251648.stm\">only Liberia was willing to be a host<\/a>, I guess that that whole illegal war of aggression in Iraq probably put other host nations off.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t want to be a part of future colonialist military actions.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is claiming that Africom is, &#8220;not about militarisation but consolidating existing operations under one single command, while helping Africans with military training and supporting peacekeeping and aid operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And no one believed this, largely because of recent behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Military&#8217;s new Africa Command (Africom) was to have been relocated from Germany to an African nation, but only Liberia was willing to be a host, I guess that that whole illegal war of aggression in Iraq probably put other host nations off. They don&#8217;t want to be a part of future colonialist military &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,964,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-foreign-relations","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197265"}],"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=197265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}