I was recently reading a book about Ethiopia called The Lion of Judah in the New World . The author is Theodore Vestal, an Oklahoma State University professor. And in that book, he makes a comment about Henry Kissinger's policy towards the Horn of Africa. We're talking 1972-1973, but it really sets the stage very nicely. And what Vestal notes is that
in some National Security Council secret document, Kissinger said that the best thing for Washington's policy in the Horn of Africa was to keep the region divided and pit one side against another.
Think about what's happening now, the carving up of Sudan over 10 years ago, the splitting up of Somalia that you're reporting on these days, and then the ethnic conflicts that continue to hurt Ethiopia. That is classic Kissinger divide-and-rule kind of stuff.
And the opposite of that is Ethiopia, trying to make regional alliances, both for economic and political reasons. And from what I can tell, the strength, the real key to economic and social dynamism and development in the Horn of Africa is the Eritrean-Ethiopian connection. So of course that's something that Washington wants to break up. It’s another reason Eritrea gets all the bad press it gets.
It's very difficult for me to analyze what's fact and what's fiction in US reporting on Eritrea. I don't follow much of it because I feel it's so one-sided.
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