When you do SysAdmin by proxy in Somalia, you enlist children as warriors

NYT story says child soldiers exist "across the globe," but truth is, they exist only inside my Gap.

When people say it's not our role to do the SysAdmin work in these places, they just need to understand who gets pressed into service when Core great powers don't show up.

Take a good look at the kid's face, because he's working for you.

Feel any holier about our non-interference?

Comments

[David Sutton]

Tom , nice wake up call there sir, the road proposed by your doctrine is a hard and a long one, and increasingly I see less and less support out there if long term US led interventions. Too much focus on domestic rather that international politics, which is understandable by an electorate scared by the GFC and war weary.

But its still a hard fact that if the US was to gear up and exercise the Leviathan, with the best of the rest pulling sys-adminn duty so that the US electorate can feel better about not having to stick around, then we could start putting some of the worlds despots out of power.

Because who else will?

[jsq]

Probably you've seen Newsweek is calling for your kind of sysadmin, without calling it by that name:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/01/the-white-man-s-burden.html