Sudan exports are minor.
Rwanda does not have crude oil production.
Posted on 09/15/2014 9:22:24 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
the leader of the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has established the world's second Islamic "caliphate" this summer and is seeking to cement his bloody rule on a territory that is now roughly the size of west Virginia.
While much of the world has been focused on the brutal reign of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the forces of Boko haram have been racking up victories in northern Nigeria and have been violently imposing an equally harsh version of Islamic law on approximately 3 million civilians - including beheadings, forced marriages and the forced induction of children into its military forces.
Most recently, the group's forces have seized two cities with a combined population of 600,000; nearly surrounded Maiduguri, home to about 1 million Nigerians; and sent government troops fleeing in scenes reminiscent of the rout of the Iraqi army by ISIS fighters this spring.
... Boko Haram's emir, Abubakar Shekau, spoke of the new Muslim state in an hour-long video released on Aug. 24, after the group seized Gwoza, a mostly Christian city of 300,000 on the border with Cameroon.
... Shekau, a multilingual jihadi responsible for the death of thousands of his countrymen, also spoke of killing 1,000 "infidels" in the city on that day alone.
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ISIS barbarian: I hear Boko Haram has declared its own caliphate.
2nd ISIS barbarian: Boko Haram. Pfffffft. Buncha amateurs.
Al Qaida barbarian: Damned straight, Achmed. Those Boko weenies couldn’t behead a chicken.
ISIS barbarian: Yup. Allah knows the only legit terrorists are ISIS. The rest are just posers.
Al Qaida barbarian: ISIS??? You must be kidding! Those clowns don’t know a fatwah from a fart.
2nd ISIS barbarian: Take that back, infidel dog, or I keel you.
Al Qaida barbarian: Yeah? You and whose caliphate?
Boko Haram barbarian: Mine! Yiyiyiyiyi!
If Boko Haram was taking over territory near Saudi Arabia and Jordan, or Assad was the president of Nigeria, I wonder if things would be different?
Sudan exports are minor.
Rwanda does not have crude oil production.
The will from the “bottom up” is there...while the will from the “top down” is diametrically opposed.....to doing so.
We just need a good twitter campaign to hashtag them into submission.
Surely you jest, but we’ve been long meddling in Africa, just as we’ve been meddling in the Middle East for decades, and the normal outcome is endless headaches and a bunch of guys we don’t like in power.
“Killing thousands of black Christians or stealing black children is no big deal”
What a short memory you have. Not long ago we had our “hate week” against Boko Haram, and the MSM had us tearing our hair and rending our clothes, which is why the organization is recognizable enough to serve its purpose in today’s headline. It’s not that we care less about its victims than ISIS’s. We don’t really care about ISIS as much as it seems. They are a back door into the Syrian war, which the powers that be have been itching to jump into.
We also care about Iraq and Kurdistan, as well as keeping Iran, Russia, and others out of the power vacuum. But mainly, it’s about Syria. It’s certainly not about the specter of ISIS, which half a second ago was according to Obama the junior varsity squad. It isn’t about two beheadings, though that’s what finally hooked the masses, or some of them. Boko Haram making similar claims to caliphatedom, threatening civilization as we know it, terrorizing this or that thing we actually care about, and so on, is neither here nor there. We’ll send the CIA, special forces, bombs, etc., after them. But if you think big talk and kidnappings are why we’re starting Iraq War III, I don’t know what to say.
I don’t know about presidents, but they don’t matter as much as people pretend, anyway. You better believe the U.S. has been paying attention to Subsaharan Africa, just like it pays attention to everywhere, because we are World Police. We meddle in everything!
Do you really maintain Clinton didn’t pay attention to Somalia? I suggest you rent “Black Hawk Down.” We have this thing called Africom, which has official dominion over the whole thing. Then there’s the CIA, which goes anywhere and apparently is subject to none of the laws of God and man. I wouldn’t be surprised whatsoever if Boko Haram’s leadership had been trained by us in Somalia or other places we’ve been active: the Sudan, Algeria, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, maybe outside of Africa in Afghanistan and elsewhere, even. This is how our empire works.
Africa has long been a battleground in the amorphous War on Terror, during which our main strategy has appeared to be to go where terrorists aren’t and beckon them with our idiotic policies. We have friendly countries (for now) like Ethiopia, Uganda, etc., which we use as bases for airstrikes against enemies like Somalia, as well as for secret CIA prisons and the like. We fund Strongmen to run these countries, as well as militias to fight the other militias that we don’t like, which often were funded and/or trained by us in the past. We also send our own ground troops in to protect our allies when they feel shaky, as Obama did in Uganda in 2009. Kenya, one of our gang, invaded Somalia a few years ago; I bet you forgot about that. Don’t get me started on the Congo. If things get bad enough we invade, unplug and replug the cord, and boot the country back up. But that’s only if the people can be goaded into caring enough.
As for Rwanda, that appears on everyone’s list of shoulda-been wars—when I say everyone, I mean the everyone that matters, as in the ones who want to start wars everywhere—so I understand why it’d lead you to believe we’ve been hands-off. But just because there was better reason to be there than, for instance, the moral swamp that was Kosovo doesn’t mean our fingers haven’t been in the African pie. The very fact that there’s so much second guessing of our nonintervention implies to me that we were right there to intervene, and that our not doing so was our acting like the non-Samaritans in the Good Samaritan story. You have to be right there not doing anything to be the foil for the Samaritan. It doesn’t work if you’re halfway across the globe and self-involved, as used to be the case long, long ago.
The tragedy of Africa isn’t a result of our meddling. It’s been a basketcase since Europe pulled out, and it was a sob story during the colonial era, with parts of it being hearts of darkness, of course. Anyway, the point is we’ve been there kindling the fire, even if we didn’t start it. And nothing ever happens quite to our liking, whether it’s our fault or not. But it’s definitely not because we’ve been ignoring the Subsaharin part. Because we haven’t, though the MSM may not have informed you. I can’t help but feel one of the few reasons we’re hearing about Boko Haram now, aside from the fact that it too obviously has had outside influence, perhaps from Al-Queda, is that Nigeria is a large oil exporter.
I’m glad you left the blinking eyes out this time.
I say, I gotta admit, the muzzies sure can pick wretched crap hole countries to declare a Caliphate in. Northern Nigeria? Really? Even the Nigerian gov’t doesn’t give a damn about Northern Nigeria. With a track record like this, I’d expect they’d pick Detroit next.
We are intervening in Nigeria; wake up. Do you mean we haven’t invaded, nor airstruck? No, we haven’t, nor did we in the Sudan, nor Rwanda. But we’ve done that so often. How many itty -bitty wars have there been since we became Globocop? The burden oughtta be on intervention, not the other way around. It makes me want to cry that people lament our not invading the Sudan or Rwanda instead of regretting starting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and on and on.
Thank you.
Now if we could just get Boku Haram and ISIS to behead each other, it would be good for everybody.
Well there is something on Twitter #bringbackthechildren or something like that. Certainly that equal to several division and targeted air strikes. Don’t think that the optics of the first black president bombing his black brothers in Africa would be all that good.
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Just a guess, but I don't think politicians would get support for missions to 3rd world shit-holes to save non-whites. Let's be truthful. Little to no Americans go to these countries. It's not a tourist haven, so there isn't a fundamental US security issue at play.
But their is political support ($$$$) to protect Israel. There is also ($$$$) at stake from certain Arab countries that make our politicians rich (UAE, Saudi, etc.) - see also Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barry Obama, John Kerry and John McCain).
Especially not to the Revrund Jahckson and Pimp Al.
Boko Haram is trying to keep up with the “competition”.
Islam has an obligatory ritual washing of the dead. You will have multiple Muslims touching the body of a contagious Ebola victim.
In Third World conditions.
Without protective gear
Seems like a way to ensure that Ebola spreads particularly fast through Muslim communities.
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