Sunday, January 20, 2013

France in Mali: The longue durée of imperial blowback


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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