Country You Don't Want to Visit # 1

50 people die in a bus crash? maybe it's a cheap shot, but how the fuck do three buses crash simultaneously? What the hell's goin' on in Nigeria lately?
This is how bill collectors operate in Nigeria. "Pay your Cricket bill or my baboon will eat your foot!" Which reminds me of another picture: "Kiss my white ass or my attack dog will kill you!"
Okay, so this is a 40 year-old photo, but how much as really changed in America? Why is there distrust of Bush's efforts to "spread democracy" across the world? The effort to spread democracy is dangerous: It conveys to those who do not enjoy this form of government the illusion that it actually governs those who do. But does it? We now know something about how the actual decisions to go to war in Iraq were taken in at least two states of unquestionable democratic bona fides: the United States and the United Kingdom. Other than creating complex problems of deceit and concealment, electoral democracy and representative assemblies had little to do with that process. Decisions were taken among small groups of people in private, not very different from the way they would have been taken in nondemocratic countries.