Carafano and Gardiner’s original reasons for creating a military command reinforce concerns that AFRICOM is just an expansion of the Bush administration’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) and its greed for oil. Military Assistance for Africa: A Better Solution,” Carafano and Gardiner argue that, “creating an Africa Command would go a long way toward turning the Bush Administration’s well-aimed strategic priorities for Africa into a reality. If a development organization in Africa, which has the same goals like security and capacity building that the government says AFRICOM has, does not want it on their soil, the U.S. needs to realize that the command is not right for Africa.