text: why have we forgotten about africa? in the west we have concentrated on the middle east and stated that we are all about democracy, but when thousands are slaughtered every day why do we turn a blind eye? we just have closer connections to the middle east  yes, we need to quit focusing so much on iraq and iran and look and congo, somolia, and sudan too. but, america is still haunted by the bombing of the medicine plant and the blackhawk down incident in the 1990's