Hi Mbogger-Fara,

Hope you're fasting...! You know how you Serrers are(LOL)

Well my comment on Sankara I guess speaks for itself, yet I think
that if one recollects how he came to power in the first place
(through a coup d'etat of course), it  becomes obvious that he trumps
the fundamental principle that Mr. Kah was hassling very hard to
explain- that soldiers should not dapple into politics- and of which
I strongly agree with him cause that is the basic ethos of any
civil-military education atleast in the West.  In effect, the Sankara
phenomenon contibuted alot to the romanticization of the
Soldier-Saviour syndrome in most parts of Africa- Sierra Leone under
Capt Strasser with the Sankara-signature dark "ray bans" is a typical
example.

Now coming to Colin Powell, I do not exactly understand your
questions, but I know that he was only a captain during the Vietnam
War.  May be you can help me recollect precisely...especially that
"economical" thing you mentioned.

Ramadan Mubarak


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Ebou Jallow
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

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