We need to remember that Greed leads to War
Last night I was reading a novel by Australian Peter Temple, called Identity Theory. It's the kind of dialogue intensive narrative that can make it feel so immediate. I came upon this passage: "And then came Angola , sad , ravaged Angola , cursed with oil . At least 300,000 people — many of them civilians — have died in the civil war since Holden Roberto of the FNLA first took the CIA’s coin in 1962 . Together , Holden and the agency held a small war and the whole world came : the US , South Africa , China , the Soviet Union , Cuba . South Africa was invited in by the US and it came with alacrity . In August 1981 , given the nod by a Reagan Administration foaming at the mouth over the Cuban presence in the country , it invaded southern Angola . The South African force of 11,000 men , supported by tanks and aircraft , laid waste to Cunene province . Some 80,000 Angolans fled their homes . How many died is unknown . The South African army settled down for a long and murderous s