Hon. Kofi Woods May Want to Soberly Rethink His Claim That Liberia Does Not Need an Army for Now?
By: Edmond R. Gray
Few days ago, the Honorable Kofi Woods argued that Liberia does not need an army now for the simple fact that, though it received the largest portion of the 500 million dollars US aid made to Liberia between 1980 and 1990, the army could not stop the Liberian Civil War, nor did it defend the territorial integrity of the nation in the past. Mr. Woods sees the army as a function and expression of power, the values of society and mostly the instrument of the elite. He questioned that if this fundamental role of the army has since not changed, what are the guarantees that the 200 million dollars currently being spent on the army by the US government will redeem and change its mentality when it functions in a society whose values have also not fundamentally changed?
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