"The West’s bombing campaign in Libya has had a terrible impact across vast swathes of northern and western Africa. It has provoked wars, intensified terrorism, led to the spread of state weaponry across borders, emboldened Islamist networks, and created new failed states. It has caused once relatively solid state entities to become destabilised or divided by the movement of forces and weapons from Libya, or as a consequence of the removal of the status quo in Libya. It has made former state-ruled territories into vacuums that are being ‘hijacked by Islamists’ (4). In the past, Western nations created states in Africa, drawing lines in the sand in order to encapsulate territories in which their interests might be best pursued and protected. Today, in stark contrast, Western nations create failed states in Africa, pushing aside governments, undermining state mechanisms and dissipating state armoury, before returning home to imagine that they have ‘helped’. In truth they have done something that makes yesteryear’s imperialism seem level-headed in comparison – they have dented the capacities of states in Africa to rule and massively blurred borders, empowering the borderless, like Boko Haram, to gain influence, to learn skills, to get weaponry, and to benefit from chaos.The Left sows chaos wherever it has the power to do so. This is not speculation: it is observed fact. From chaos the Left expects to gain total power... over whatever remains. But chaos is not predictable and it is Pandora's box opened on the entire earth. The Left's chaos might consume the Left, too.
So quit your crocodile tears for those tragic Chibok girls, Cameron and Co. For it was Western observers’ agitation for war in Libya, and Western politicians’ execution of war in Libya, which further inflamed the Islamist problem in Africa, creating the perfect conditions for the thriving of Boko Haram, who, as one Nigerian analyst said, were ‘never as audacious as they suddenly became [after the Libya war]’. All that hashtagging by the leaders of the Western world is pretty grotesque – it’s an act of pure vanity designed to make themselves look purposeful and caring, just as their bombing of Libya was, just as was that intervention that unwittingly emboldened groups like Boko Haram. When will the new infantile moral crusaders of global affairs learn that their vanity kills?"
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For situational insight, read the entire article.
H/T: Anshuman Reddy
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No 'might' about it, Stan. They live here too. And their symbol is that of a man sawing on a branch, so yeah.
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