Liberia really exists!
Holy shit! Liberia really exists! At least, it does now that “America has bowed to international pressure” (as the BBC News 24 anchorman put it earlier this morning). In fact it now exists so well the BBC are headlining it for the first time (though not on their website). Liberia, we were told, was “founded by American slaves,” and Liberians are “fed up with vague promises from America” about intervening.
Of course, if the US had been a little more vague in its threats over Iraq like most of the world wanted, those silly Liberians wouldn’t ever have gotten their hopes up so high, would they? So I blame Polly Toynbee. Naturally.
(Next week: how freed European slaves founded their own country, Libeuria (capital: Giscardia, pop. 96,000,000), and how liberal capitalist rebels ran riot after ousting the dictatorship of Pol Prodi. Only on the Discovery Channel!)
