is it possible today to militarily over throw a dictatorial government in Africa and get aclaimation?
922171
Sure - depending on\n\n1. The country and what kind of a rep it had to start with\n\n2. How much blood you have to spill to get it done\n\n3. How good your new minister of information is at their job.
1035585
Nope. It's still the same way it was before we invaded. Warlords run most of the country under their own laws, and the only thing that's pro-Western is the government in the capital. Sorry.
1096570
Good question.  My answer is that (a)the corrupt element controls the guns and the military and (b) the history of Africa is the history of TRIBALISM ('my people don't like your people and we never will'). Tribal animosities are encouraged by the dictators. Things don't seem to be getting better -- maybe the conern over the dark continent is just a waste of time and effort.
1115286
Too True. Why not? the 'West' continue to enjoy the fruits of exploitation whilst turning a blind eye to the exploited. In having it in your face you will at least not claim not to know. Africa frnakly needs to take it's own affairs in hand and kick out the exploiters.
1109497
Sadly, I don't think the U.S. has an official position on the situation in the Congo.  In some respects, it is understandable that other areas would gain our focus right now, but I think our foreign policy has suffered recently, because of that.
1035004
In some cases, yes.   Any country that has free elections,  definately yes.   In brutal dictatorships, communist or Islamo-Facist states, no.   In monarchy's,  probably not.
535575
No.  For one thing, in many cases that is simply not possible.  Moreover, it is not generally an effective deterrent and could easily give rise to a vendetta culture.\n\nThis colony's future looks dim.
118848
Dictatorships in the modern sense tend to exert their power without any regard to the moral or ethical consequences of their actions. They hardly ever come to power by democratic means, often being installed by a coup d'état or revolution. Often they will assert that they are using their powers, like ancient Roman dictators, to deal with the enormity of some emergency, real or imagined. However, dictators and their governments rarely lay down their power once any such crisis has abated. In the lack thereof, they sometimes invent their own, such as in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.\n\nSuch regimes survive out of the fear the people have for the government. Dictatorships often use armed force, propaganda, and arbitrary detention to enforce their will, and usually suppress any opinion which runs counter to their own. Dictators in single-party states, as opposed to military juntas, often create single-party states without elections, or with rigged or heavily biased ones.\n\n\nGenocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."\n\nWhy not ask the question, "which national leaders are commiting genocide?" \n\nPresident Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan possibly\nand depending on who you ask President George W. Bush of USA
514434
absolutely, Mexico is a good example.  Where a few super rich control the government.  Have drug lords controling the rest.  Keep the populous in abject poverty.  The brutality is over whelming.  The masses could over throw the few and take back there government and establish one that isn't so corrupt.  That would benefit the people.\nimmigrateing to America while understandable is hardly the answer.
650037
YES, and it should be carried out by casting ballots. The rate of voters is really low, and it gets lower year by year. An armed revolution hardly ever has any positive result (Cuba, Mexico, Cambodia, China). The power in a democracy is in the People, but if these people don't vote or do so without being informed first, then Democracy is weak, and weak democracies always give off tyrants.
954679
I don't think we can do that. Why would you wanna talk to them? I would assume that the Indian governement is a highly bureaucratic one.
1028568
I haven't heard of anyone having any success in Africa. There is too much war and corruption in the places where help is needed most.  \nYou cannot force govts to cancel debts.  If someone represented that  to you, then you may have been hustled.\nI HAVE seen Isaiah Washington's pic on YA and him asking how to help Malaria victims in Africa.
632616
Yes we can. Government by definition equals tyranny. They steal your money and call it taxes, they limit your freedom and call it laws, they enrich themselves and call it entitlement.
493697
a Military Dictatorship
444601
I have worked in Nigeria, it must be one of the most corrupt countries in the world, this has got to be down to the government, no matter how much income they get, or from whatever source, not much of it gets to the people that need it. So my answer is NO, only a massive shake up of the government. And we can't do anything about that can we?
456943
How can someone punish the citizens in a country by denying them service because of the way their government behaves?
1073727
It is not so much a case of the government we deserve as it is a case of getting the government we are too lazy to stop(in most cases) World wide governmental corruption, the western " Cult of Personality" and indolence all lead to this. With the way that any one running for office in the west is scrutinized, you must ask yourself what kind of person puts themselves and their families through it. The answer of course is egomanaical numbskulls that toe what ever party line they are told to toe. These are just talking heads anyway. Outside of the west it seems, largely, that it is the rule of the gun. Most of the current African leadership are little more that corrupt tribal chiefs and thugs interested only in their own enrichment. Sound cynical? Maybe, but take a really good look around.