Power groups using civilians as pawns in a grand <br />game of chess, Mel Gibson's Scots in Braveheart, <br />Leon Uris' Arabs in The Haj - and African leaders <br />imitate them to great effect <br /> <br />Libyan refugees victimised in the game between <br />Gadaffi and the West, and equally Africa's leaders <br />use their people for blackmail; responsibility and <br />logical consequences unknown concepts <br /> <br />With such an attitude Africa is doomed; it is only <br />when people take their fate into their own hands <br />they achieve success - work ethic and expertise <br />can save the continent, replacing proliferating <br /> <br />numbers of ignorant people, thirteen babies per <br />woman who cannot learn anything while simply <br />surviving, the unskilled manipulated like slaves <br />by their unconscionable Heads of State <br /> <br />Who sacrifice their own subjects for their own <br />political causes, demanding the West provide <br />the advantages denied by poverty, then using <br />help offered to enrich themselves <br /> <br />How tragic is that…<br /><br />Margaret Alice Second<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-tragic-is-that-revised/
