You may be right. But if these generals are bastards - what makes you think the people that they rule are going to be any different?.

Its comparatively easy to lift the lid suppressing these situations. But I tend to think we should know a lot more about the people we are being asked to finance and put our young men's lives on the line for. Have they done so much as a learned TV interview.

Look at all the half assed regimes we have propped up from Madame Nhu to Robert Mugabe. The time to get it right is NOW, not down the road apiece.