Posted on 12/09/2013 11:09:22 AM PST by Sopater
Breaking on Fox. Headline only
DEFENSE SECRETARY HAGEL ORDERS US MILITARY TO TRANSPORT BURUNDIAN TROOPS TO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AMID CONFLICT
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“It’s fashionable to rip on French troops on FR, granted . . . but their performance in Africa of late leaves nothing to scoff at . . . .”
Indeed. The French Air Force transported Moroccan troops to what was then Zaire in 1977 to fight Marxist rebels in Shaba province. The Foreign Legion itself took on those rebels a year later. I can think of other examples, like fighting Libyan troops in Chad back in the 1980s.
Religion in Burundi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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About 80 percent of the population of Burundi are Christian and about 15 percent are Muslim. The remainder practise indigenous religions, or have no religious
no Bill Clinton ignored Rwanda because if he “noticed” it, he would have had to do something.... and there were no aspirin factories at which to launch Tomhawks ..and there was an election coming up
his advisor was Susan Rice
Now she is fulfilling her fantasy of US troops in an African war
From Wikipedia:
The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least five hundred years and, for over two hundred years, Burundi was ruled as a kingdom. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, Germany and Belgium occupied the region and Burundi and Rwanda became a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi. Social differences between the Tutsi and Hutu have since contributed to political unrest in the region, leading to civil war in the middle of the twentieth century. Presently, Burundi is governed as a presidential representative democratic republic.
Burundi is one of the five poorest countries in the world. It has one of the lowest per capita GDPs of any nation in the world.[6] The country has suffered from warfare, corruption, poor access to education and the effects of HIV/AIDS. Burundi is densely populated and experiences substantial emigration. According to a 2012 DHL Global Connectedness Index, Burundi is the least globalised of 140 surveyed countries.[7]
A half dozen A-10 Warthogs would cure the Muzzy’s problem over there.
Flush em out in the open and play Cowboys and Muzzys, kind of a high-tech whack-A-mole.
The whole world seemed to ignore it.
I'd rather not, thanks. In a few months, the whining on FR would be deafening. (And those people won't take kindly to being reminded that when it mattered, they were making old and lame jokes about the French).
In regards to my last post, my bad. They are still in a transitional government. I thought they had held elections, I was wrong.
We lost 3,300 people in 2 hours on 9/11/2001 because Clinton ignored what was happening in the world.
The French, for what ever reason, don’t fight on their own soil very well. Even in their colonies.
However, when they go to Africa, they tend to solve the problem pretty well.
Most are Christian - somebody gave an article that says the country is 80% Christian - but nine months ago the Muslims in the north were joined by foreign Islamists to effect a coup against the Christian president who had been in office about ten years. So right now there is a Muslim president but he claims to have no control over the Islamist thugs he unified in order to oust the old president. Meanwhile the Christians have formed militias to protect themselves and are hoping that France and the UN will stop these Islamist terrorists from terrorizing the country. The Christians want things to go back to normal. The Muslim president says he wants things to go back to peaceful but can’t control the people who put him in power. He’s told the nation’s soldiers to stay in their barracks and let the French re-establish the rule of law there.
“However, when they go to Africa, they tend to solve the problem pretty well.”
The very last one at the bottom is worth the click. Trust me, guys.
Algeria was part of France then, but that is splitting hairs.
via the Chicago mob via the CIA = the NWO pukes
k. Burundian troops make good sense. At least they would have some clue about whom to shoot; they know all about this tribal stuff. Our soldiers would be totally in the dark.
Just wait a minute here...
Our corrupt government refuses to protect and secure our own borders, yet you have no problem with sending our military into Africa to help protect and secure them?
Under Bush, upwards of 20 million people entered our country illegally, during wartime yet...
In fact Bush allowed in more Muslims AFTER 911, than what was allowed in the two decades before.
Are you suggesting we get involved in more decades long, multi-trillioin dollar compassionate wars in the Congo or Outer Mongolia?
Yes, if it threatens to make our problems worse. We ignored Muslim terrorism too long.
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