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The cost of short-sighted missionary zeal
in Sudan
By Stephen
Kinzer JULY
24, 2016 – boston globe
FIVE YEARS AGO, pushed by an odd
coalition of movie stars and conservative Christians, the United States
midwifed the birth of a new African nation, South Sudan. Senior American
leaders attended the glittering independence celebration. This was supposed to
be a liberation or a human rights project or a return to godliness. Only a few
analysts saw the folly of such an ill-considered intervention.
“This place could go down in flames tomorrow,” General Scott
Gration, the US military envoy, warned as independence approached. “The
probability of failure is great.”
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