AFRICOM

clipped from www.theatlantic.com The Next Frontier Africa matters. It is no longer a third-rate theater of war. The Pentagon’s decision to stand up a war-fighting command exclusively for Africa by the end of 2008 presages a new direction for the global war on terrorism, with profound implications for the military and its relations with the State Department and other executive-branch institutions. It also provides a way for the United States to deal with a rising China. I've said before that China could be the battleground for the proxy war between China and the U.S. Question is will this make Africa a worse place? And is that even possible?