American Foreign Policy Towards Africa Article: Foreign Policy and American Independence Constitution Party National Website Phillips 2000 Campaign Website

America Should Be The Advocate Of Liberty Everywhere, But The Defender Of Ours Alone
Regarding Yugoslavia, it was constitutionally inappropriate for the United States to become involved in any way...

...in the internal affairs of that country.

The history of U.S. involvement in Africa can not be considered without reference to the fact that during the height of the Cold War the mineral resources of Sub-Saharan Africa were at risk. Unfortunately, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the policies of the United States were at best mixed and to a very great degree they unwisely contributed to the consolidation of Communist control in a number of countries where mineral resources vital to the national security of the United States are located. These countries include Angola, South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique.

The unfortunate fact is that today the United States government is not only withholding moral support from anti-Communist forces in those countries, but it is providing tangible economic assistance to countries which are fully anti-democratic and which are Marxist/Leninist in their origins and in their overriding loyalties.

In regards to Angola, President Clinton has ridiculously declared it is a national emergency for the United States government to withhold even the possibility of an office in the United States for persons associated with the anti-Communist freedom fighter movement in that country. Furthermore, the United States has been providing military assistance to the corrupt regime of Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in Angola while his regime seeks to assassinate the anti-Communist leader Jonas Savimbi and murder thousands of people associated with him.

Similarly in Namibia and South Africa we are confronted with governments which are run by former terrorists who have a long history of connection with the Soviet Union and with the Communist Party. The policy of the United States should be to not reinforce communist control and to not reinforce anti-Christian persecution of the kind that we see in the Sudan. The policy should be one of pursuing what John Quincy Adams advocated -- namely that the United States should be the advocate of liberty everywhere but the defender of ours alone.

As tragic as the circumstances of Africa are, except to the degree that we are in a war time situation where U.S. vital interests are at risk, we should not align ourselves through financial and military assistance with regimes which, in times of conflict, have historically been aligned against us.

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