THANKS, W:

Liberia - a model for US development aid (Benjamin J. Spatz, November 9, 2011, CS Monitor)

Turn the page to 2011 and this emerging West African democracy of 3.5 million people is nearly unrecognizable from its not-so-distant past.

Drug-addled child soldiers and combatants with names like General Butt Naked - known for charging into battle naked - no longer roam the streets. Instead, the US vetted and trained new Liberian soldiers, the start of the country's first professional army.

Literacy rates that bottomed out at an abysmal 20 percent are on the rise with US support to train teachers and build teaching colleges; future child scholars, not child soldiers, are busy in classrooms.

Just one example of why W was the best president Africa ever had.

Posted by oj at November 16, 2011 5:59 AM
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