Wampum

So as I was looking for that Bush jump-the-shark post, I ran across these, which, I have to say, surprised even the deja-vu cynical me:

LIBERIAN PRESIDENT DEMANDS IMMEDIATE HALT TO FIGHTING
WP News Services
September 8, 1991

Liberia's interim president called for an immediate cease-fire yesterday in fighting between Liberian exiles and forces of rebel leader Charles Taylor.

President Amos Sawyer, on a one-day visit to neighboring Sierra Leone, said he sympathized with exiles of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), who launched an attack on Taylor's forces Wednesday from bases in Sierra Leone.

But Sawyer said there must be a peaceful resolution to the 21-month-old Liberian...

BUSH FORGIVES SENEGAL'S $42 MILLION DEBT TO U.S.
NATION ENCOURAGED TO SEND TROOPS TO LIBERIA
John E. Yang, Washington Post
September 11, 1991

President Bush forgave Senegal's $42 million debt to the United States yesterday as he encouraged Senegalese President Abdou Diouf to send troops to Liberia in hopes of breaking the political impasse that has followed a bloody civil war there, according to administration officials.

By erasing a debt built up largely through purchases of U.S. agricultural products, Bush sought to underscore his support for Senegal, one of the few multiparty democracies in Africa and an ally that sent...

LIBERIA -- THE WHITE HOUSE AGENDA
Washington Post Editorial
September 12, 1991

THE LIBERIAN crisis received a timely airing in this week's meeting between President Bush and Senegal's president, Abdou Diouf. Though full-scale fighting ended months ago, factions are still skirmishing along Liberia's border with Sierra Leone. If the shooting is allowed to continue unchecked, next Monday's meeting in the Ivory Coast between the Liberian parties and key West African nations to work out a political solution and a date for internationally supervised...

I haven't even touched on the similarities between the two Bush's Israeli/Palestinian plans.

[note: accidentally posted with the original saved draft time...gotta watch out for that in MT.]