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pietillidie
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The first step is knowing what the hell we're talking so as to ethically warrant intervention. Current views are about as detailed and compelling as Aunt Joan's medical advice; all we've got is vague stories and some soap opera definitions of good and evil handed down by others who probably don't know much more than that themselves.
As I've said before, most things I read about South Korea in the Western media are ridiculous; how much more reports on life in Timbuktu? I'm not discouraging people doing their best to work with limited information, but as far as I can tell no one in this thread has come even remotely close to meeting the most minimal requirements.
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The point is, intervention generally ends badly.
(Unless you have bags of oil).
Egypt Lybia and soon Syria have effected (for better or worse) change from with-in and i'd like to see them run with it instead of us (and our septic mates) sacrificing more blood in the hope of nourishing Jefferson's "Tree of Liberty". |
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David 
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Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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Interesting. Always pays to take a critical eye to 'world news'.
https://pando.com/2015/09/02/war-nerd-how-write-islamist-scare-story/120993c5ff01f2b4c16b07dd4d9d35e1b895707e/
| Quote: | But what can you do if you’re an inland black African, with limited opportunity for shark stories? Well, you have to hope that you get killed by an Islamist. Because Sahel Islamist militias, no matter how trivial they are in real military terms, are big news right now.
And that’s why Reuters, a respectable British news service, printed a story on August 18, 2015, headlined “Mali’s Islamist Conflict Spreads as New Militant Group Emerges.”
Mali is weak on shark stories—landlocked, no chance—but strong on material for Islamist hysteria.
The problem, for a hype-committed team of reporters and editors, is that Mali’s big spurt of Islamist rebellion came years ago, in 2012-13. By September 2012, the Islamist Alliance controlled two-thirds of the country (though most of that territory was Saharan desert).
Most people saw only those control maps, with the big northern triangle of Mali turning red, meaning “rebel-controlled,” without realizing that the only part of that big empty that mattered at all was the river towns like Gao and the road leading to Kidal, the only northern town of any size. North of Kidal doesn’t matter, in Mali terms, any more than NWT does in Canadian elections.
But it was a big chunk of map, and good enough to scare people with. |
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