The people back home wouldn't buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand.
Danny Archer: Let me tell you something. You sell blood diamonds too.Maddy Bowen: Really?Danny Archer: Yeah.Maddy Bowen: Tell me, how is that?Danny Archer: Who do you think buys the stones that I bring out? Dreamy American girls who all want a storybook wedding and a big, shiny rock like the ones in the advertisements of your politically-correct magazines. So, please, don't come here and make judgments on me, all right?
Danny Archer: American, huh?Maddy Bowen: Guilty.Danny Archer: Well, Americans usually are.Maddy Bowen: ...Says the white South African?Danny Archer: Ts ts ts ts. I'm from Rhodesia!Maddy Bowen: We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?Danny Archer: Do we?Maddy Bowen: Last time I checked.
Peace Corps types only stay around long enough... to realize they're not helping anyone. Government only wants to stay in power... until they've stolen enough to go into exile somewhere else. And the rebels, they're not sure they want to take over. Otherwise, they'd have to govern this mess.
