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| Author: | Jason McLure |
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September 12, 2007
Summary:
The U.S. military is hoping that soft projects like drilling wells and building schools will help it win friends in a volatile part of Africa.
Excerpt:
In Dire Dawa, shantytown residents used to relieve themselves in a dry riverbed. Lacking bathrooms, they rose early or stayed up late to perform their ablutions under cover of darkness, recalls Jilelu Shemsu, a 23-year-old who lives in a small metal-roof shack in the Ethiopian city. These days, though, things are better. Sixty families now share a new five-pit concrete-floor latrine—all paid for by Washington. The reason: the U.S. military hopes that funding such projects will help it fight terrorism in the Horn of Africa.
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America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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