The current crisis in Mali is
a product of French colonialism, and their intervention will sadly create more
blowback.
By Mark LeVine
Al-Jazeera
".....Given the clear attention being paid to the Sahel in the last decade by
French and US policymakers, we can only assume that either they were utterly
incompetent in failing to understand the inevitable results of Western military
intervention in Libya, or saw that as a win-win situation, providing a new
theatre in a strategically rising area of the world in which US, French and
Western militaries could become increasingly engaged (and in so doing, keep
rivals such as China further at bay)......"
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