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Not only are they seizing defenseless civilian ships, they're bribing countless Somali warlords, paying for their political ambitions and child armies. Not holding these people accountable (or trying to attach ridiculous motives) is a kind of soft bigotry that has hampered Africa for the beginning, and allowed butchers like Mugabe, Idi Amin, and Charles Taylor to gain and hold power.

The fact that the author has seen to have confused toxic waste with nuclear waste makes this all the more unbelievable.



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