The Pentagon is now dancing in the ruins of Yugoslavia, and Somalia has slipped back into its pre-intervention stateless state. The war's cause can be traced to cutoffs of aid after the cold war's end and the collapse of patron-client politics that had bound Liberia's politicians to one man. Once hailed as a model for democracy by Western governments and agencies, Zimbabwe has lost its luster. . .
Time appears to be on the side of the Moroccan occupation.