DANGER IN THE HORN OF AFRICA, INDIFFERENCE IN FOGGY BOTTOM

By Tex Manchester

As you are reading this, 300,000 Ethiopian fighters are pitched astride the border from 200,000 Eritrean soldiers, separated by less than 4,000 UN peacekeepers (a mission that incidentally costs taxpayers almost $200 million per year). Half a million heavily armed men facing each other with hate-filled eyes and itchy trigger fingers.

Even a minor incident could spark all-out war. And a number of State Department bureaucrats seem determined to do nothing to prevent it.