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And though the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo is the most democratic and the least corrupt Nigeria has known since independence (including a period in the late 1970s when General Obasanjo was the country's military ruler until he stepped aside voluntarily to permit election of a civilian president), the country remains dangerously weak.

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The news about civilian casualties is also less bad than it used to be.

And they also do not properly account for civilian suffering more generally.

Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.

We should have limited ourselves very, very strictly to the protection of the civilian population in Benghazi.

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