President Charles Taylor

George Bush & Charles Taylor General Analysis; current affairs; George Bush & Charles Taylor" The Objective of this paper is wholly to illustrate and depict what President Charles Taylor done to have been ordered by President George Bush to relinquish his power One of the most significant and relevant happenings within the contemporary world has been, arguably, the achievement of ultimate global, strategic and military power by the United States of America, an occurrence that the country appears to be intensifying and fortifying in so much as enhancing the ostensible war on terrorism incepted as a consequence of the ghastly September 11th attack (s) on the WTC and the Pentagon.

Subsequent political influence The U.S., as a result of contemporaneously being the nation wielding supreme power, finds itself in a position demanding monumental commitment and responsibility, such as resolving particularly deteriorative issues around the globe. This is something that becomes quite apparent when taking into consideration the degree of U.S. involvement within the Liberian revolts and riots that are currently sweeping across and massacring the land. The current Liberian Issue The U.S.

finds itself in a rather problematic situation as far as ensuring that effectual peacekeeping measures be ensured within Liberia, something that is rather dramatically obstructed by the fact that the Liberian president, Charles Taylor, appears to have changed his mind in regard to complying with Washington's assertion that he relinquish his power (Jones & Hermant, 2003). What's more, the issue is that it is Taylor who is ostensibly the root of the issue in Liberia.

The degree of bloodshed and violence that has ravaged West African nation of Liberia ever since embattled President, Charles Taylor led a coup against the former Liberian government in 1989 has led to the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's urging the U.S. To take the auxiliary role in restoring peace and order to the nation of 3.4 million people (Wiley, 2003).

Complications In spite of the fact that Taylor has accepted the Nigerian offer for exile, he shows no sign of leaving the country that he plunged into brutal turmoil after launching a rebellion on Christmas Eve, 1989.

Taylor has an exceptionally diverse past, something that is made more apparent when acknowledging the fact that, born in Liberia, he spent a decade in the Boston area, earning an economics degree from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., and dabbling in expatriate Liberian politics; he later worked as a gas-station attendant and plastics-factory worker to support himself. After a violent Liberian regime change in 1979, however, Taylor returned home and got a spot as a Cabinet minister in the new government of Samuel K.

Doe; ironically though, Taylor vanished from Liberia again four years later, this time a step ahead of charges that he had embezzled nearly $1 million from the government. Reasons for Taylor's relinquishment of power The international police agency Interpol tracked him to the Boston area, where he was caught and spent a year in jail fighting extradition home.

Again a step ahead, he managed to escape jail before being sent back to Liberia for his awaiting justice, resurfacing in his country again, where, encamped in Sierra Leone and other African countries that border Liberia, he concentrated on putting together a band of fighters dedicated to ousting Doe. And though his 1989 Christmas Eve coup was a technical failure, it did indeed stir up a monumentally violent and inhuman civil war (Hoffman, 2003).

After being elected President in 1997, Taylor showed the full extent of his true colors; one of his inceptions, the Small Boy Units, which was only part of the entirety of his violence and brutality was a team comprised of youths as young as 9 years old who were armed, given illicit drugs and turned loose to massacre and mutilate whomever they wished. Moreover, Taylor has also been indicted by a U.N.-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone for allegedly supporting rebels in a bloody conflict in that country (Fofana, 2003).

Conclusion In spite of the fact that Bush is still uncertain in regard to the deployment of U.S. peace keeping troops to Liberia (Phahlane, 2003), it is clear the Bush's assertion, that he,.