PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd – South Sudan

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

Smothering Love: How the West’s South Sudan Obsession Hurts the Country

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — There are two main views of what kind of nation the world’s newest country is becoming. The divide reveals much both about the place in question, South Sudan, and about the way the world relates to Africa in general. Without strong, even fervent support from certain quarters in the West, this long-suffering country clearly would never have attained independence. Yet the question now is whether that support has, paradoxically, become a millstone around the new country’s neck. The enthusiasm of South Sudan’s foreign backers and especially those in Washington may have caused them to turn a blind or at least excessively indulgent eye to grave political problems that could doom South Sudan to the lasting curse of failed nationhood.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/smothering-love-how-the-wests-south-sudan-obsession-hurts-the-country/258858/

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