Soong's knowledge of Liberia was quite limited, but he knew that this West African country, twice the size of Taiwan in area and with a population of about 3.2 million, was ravaged by war. The scale of one major civil war which broke out in 1989 was such that Westerners called it "World War III," and to this day hostilities have not ended.
印象中，這個面積約台灣兩倍大，人口約 320 萬人的西非國家，除了戰爭還是戰爭，甚至曾在 1989 年爆發了規模之大、被西方人稱為「第三次世界大戰」的內戰，迄今紛擾仍未完全平息。