I am aware that time zones differentiation gives the impression that you folks are slow to respond to questions but keep up the good work.

Best regards.

My apology. Your post was great.

I have to agree with you regarding Tolbert. He was the right man at the wrong time. Although I was born after 1980. From all of the research I’ve done although he wasn’t perfect, I sense that he more than all of our leaders did his best for the country.

Unfortunately he was caught between the winds of change from the so called “progressives” and the old guard who didn’t want any change at all. I think this put him between a rock and a hard place. Couple of questions for you and the forum;

1) Where do you think the Country would’ve been today were he alive?
2) In hindsight what could he have done to appease the in my opinion too overzealous and unprepared so called “change agents” while keeping the old guard happy at the same?

The third question is a little sensitive but do you feel that these barely literate orderlies and their progressive puppet masters could’ve have solely been responsible for this assasination or were there hidden hands?

Yea, I am a big fan of Tolbert. He was the first president to have the constitution amended to serve only one term. A writer (David Lamb) described him as a “descent man”. I wish he would have been given the chance…..

I couldn’t agreed with you more. Thanks for breaking it down. Awesome post Smith.

You make so much sense in this identical piece. This is the very first post of yours that deserves at least a maximum high mark. Outstanding. However, the overthrowing of Tolbert was not necessary. I agree with you. It was very hard on Tolbert. This Baptist Preacher was caught between a pair of scissors. He was primarily concerned about the total integration of all the peoples. While on the other hand, his people (TWP) did not want that kind of reforms. Nontheless, he promised multi party democracy and he was not going to contest the pending 1983 presidential election. And I believed him. Secondly, I also agreed with you that the 1989 incursion was not the best way to have gotten President Doe out. But again, thank you for graciously conceding that you thought it was a good thing (Taylor rebel war). Now you know, war was not the solution. You went on to say, if we are to blame anybody, we all should be blamed. But this is not time to blame. AWESOME. SINCE YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THE TRIAL, I WILL ALSO NOT MENTION ABOUT THE TRIAL.

Edward Massaquoi, I also agreed with you. Your post is phenomenally awesome. Good job guys. Now we all cooking with grease.