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Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian President Wants U.S. Troops to Fight Boko Haram
2015-02-14
[WSJ] President Goodluck Jonathan said Friday that he has asked the U.S. military to dispatch troops to northern Nigeria,
Good luck, Jonathan, widdat.
the region where Islamist militants have captured territory, suggesting that Boko Haram had established links with Islamic State.
Not never ever gonna happen. The lefties would be blowing their vocal chords out hollering about imperialist aggressors slaughtering innocent blacks. We could have done it in 1955, or 1975, probably not by 1995, certainly not by 2015. The boil of racial hypersensitivity and profiteering has grown too big and infected too much of its surrounding political tissue.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Maybe if they had not replaced all their top military officials with sock puppets they could have taken care of it themselves.
Posted by: gorb   2015-02-14 20:30  

#6  Nigeria is a big wealthy country. They can handle this.
Posted by: Mr. Frank   2015-02-14 20:08  

#5  NO.

Do your own goddam fighting.

If you actually want them fought.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-02-14 15:59  

#4  He won't be OK with the rules of engagement necessary to actually do anything useful. Nor would our Betters®, for that matter.
Posted by: James   2015-02-14 15:03  

#3  Will such fighting advance interests of Iran?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-14 06:13  

#2  LOL
Posted by: badanov   2015-02-14 00:24  

#1  Cash up front, homey...
Posted by: Raj   2015-02-14 00:15  

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