A Better, Bad Choice
A Better, Bad Choice
by Richard M. Wrona, Jr.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is a modern-day nightmare. After more than a decade of conflict, the country’s eastern region is known for its seemingly unending human misery. Mass murder, forced displacements, and the horrible distinction of being the world’s “rape capital” embody Thomas Hobbes’ description of life in an anarchic world, (i.e. nasty, brutish, and short.) Reports two weeks ago of hundreds of women, girls, and babies being gang-raped by rebels and tribesmen within miles of a United Nations peacekeepers’ camp only serve as the most recent chapters in an epic tragedy (“Congo mass rape numbers rise to 240—UN,” BBC).
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Richard Wrona is a U.S. Army officer presently serving as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His previous assignments include command and staff positions with the 82nd Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade, as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy, and—most recently—as the Strategy and Policy Branch Chief with U.S. Africa Command. The views presented herein are his own, and do not constitute the policies or positions of the Army, the Department of Defense, or any other government or non-government entity.
