The NYT finally makes it to Goma.
"'What is my hope?' said Dorique Parambe, who lives with her six children in a slum in Bunia, a city in the Ituri district of eastern Congo that suffered through repeated massacres and assaults. 'I hope to vote. After that, I don't know.'"
A single mom living in a slum in one of the worst places in the world says it better than any of the academics or Carter Center election observers or UN officials ever could. Short-term hope means a lot. But you can't feed your children on it. And you can't build a country on it.