An American 'Empire'?

摘要

It's a breezy tropical night in Kigali, Rwanda's hilltop capital. At Chez Lando; locals eat grilled fish and watch a French news broadcast on a TV set above the bar. The announcer mentions that 500,000 refugees have returned to Rwanda from Zaire and says: "France still favors an international relief effort ..." The crowd jeers. Then the newsman adds that "some say an international effort is no longer needed: the Rwandan government and the United States ..." The diners applaud. Welcome to Rwanda, just about the best friend Washington has in Africa these days—so good a friend that French diplomats mutter darkly about a plot to create an Anglophone empire stretching from Cape Town to Cairo.