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2013-03-18 Africa North

Terror Haven in Mali Feared After French Leave

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Posted by Steve White 2013-03-18 08:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Obviously the trendy decolonization of Africa in the 1960s has been a failure.

Give the Congo back to Belgium, all of the Sahara back to the French, and let the English go back into Rhodesia and clean that fever swamp out.

The locals, were not prepared for self government when they were given the reins and it has been mayhem and utter chaos ever since. I can tell you Angola was a freaking nightmare after Portugal gave it up. And we all know what Somolia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Nigeria have become.

I think it was a project with both a high ROI and a positive NPV to let the French stay and have the US and the UK defray the cost. Eventually, anything that happens in the alternate universe that is Islamic fanaticism/terrorism comes down on our necks.

So could we just let the UK settle up things in the Sudan. After all they can unwrap Kitchener's tactics and subdue that mess.

As for us, as long as we lack the resolve in the National leadership to defend our interests, we can find ourselves on the receiving end of some horrific act germinated in Mali, Sudan, or Yemen.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-18 10:34|| 2013-03-18 10:34|| Front Page Top

#2 From the seemingly endless queue of quotes I love and authors I do not:

"Pottery House Rules apply".

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-18 12:26|| 2013-03-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#3 We didn't break Mali, we tried to help fix it but the danged Gorilla Glue didn't hold the pottery shards together. Let the French try to fix the place. It might take a while.

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-18 12:50|| 2013-03-18 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Never mind the rest, but don't let Belgium anywhere near the Congo. It never belonged to the country anyway, but was the personal income property of the kings, who put the most evil, avaricious men they could find in charge of maximizing income with no questions asked.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-18 15:39|| 2013-03-18 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Marlowe & Kurtz come to mind.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-18 20:04|| 2013-03-18 20:04|| Front Page Top

#6 "OH, THE HORROR!!!!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-03-18 20:58|| 2013-03-18 20:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I must simply agree and state as fact that the time of Belgium ground work has been relieved forever, with a note... your rucksack is in the hall. do not return.

Posted by newc 2013-03-18 23:20|| 2013-03-18 23:20|| Front Page Top

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