When President Bush's father was in office, an almost identical scenario faced the United States. There was fighting by rebel forces trying to overthrow then-President Samuel Doe. U.S. ships were off the coast of Monrovia, they were evacuating Americans and Europeans, but refusing to intervene with a humanitarian force aimed at making peace,
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Any lasting peace must be based upon a broad political understanding, and fighting government forces in Monrovia does not change that fact,
The continent is swimming in arms. The kids on the streets of Nairobi and Khartoum and Abidjan and Monrovia have guns in their pockets or up their sleeves.
You chose me because I am a peace ambassador. You have a case. While we are looking into the case we want you to remain calm. The streets of Monrovia do not belong to demonstrators. Do not go into the streets to riot,
Our would-be presidents think that Monrovia is the whole of Liberia. None of them has taken time off to tell us in detail how Liberia or our county will be developed.