Terrorist Organizations
What sort of policies could the U.S. implement to prevent terrorist cells from forming in Africa? Do you believe that the U.S. should intervene, or should the problems of Africa be eliminated from within the individual countries? Why?
This is a thorny question, because U.S. intervention can often backfire, making other countries resent us for being "bullies" or for meddling in their affairs. However, we know that many of these African organizations receive at least some funding and support from groups like Al Qaeda, so we need to do something to monitor them or intervene if they become too dangerous. It would be nice to leave the intervention to the individual countries, but many of them are so corrupt or underfunded that they have little recourse on their own, and they need help from someone stronger and more powerful if they want to eliminate these groups from their area.
In some cases, when there is no other alternative, the U.S. should...
However, if they can provide funding to the country's government, and it is not corrupt, the country should manage the project on their own. The fiasco in Somalia that the film "Black Hawk Down" portrayed is a good example of why intervention often does not work, and why the people themselves need to take on these extremist organizations and eliminate them on their own. That being said, if the organization poses a threat to our people on foreign soil or here at home, then it is our duty to keep our citizens safe, by just about any means possible. If that include intervention, especially if there is intelligence that the group is getting ready to attack, then it is justified, and keeping these organizations under control and eliminating them is simply an act of public safety in these cases. It would be impossible to intervene with each and every extremist organization, however, and that is another problem with this issue.
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