Archive for February, 2013
The French in Mali are being counterproductive
February 1st, 2013 | 
Author: By Jonathan Power
Are we in Mali being caught up in the fallout from the reaction to the reaction of 9/11? It very much looks like it. First, the destruction of the World Trade Center. Then the first reaction – the bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the subsequent war and the loose talk about “the clash of civilizations”.
Then the second reaction – anger and hostility from one end of the Islamic world to the other. Although the dust has now settled on that, thanks not least to Al Qaeda overstepping its mark and killing Muslims, there is in some parts a residual hostility- a sea in which the few remaining Islamic militants can swim.
But these militants by and large have not done well. Since 9/11 there has not been one successful attack on the USA. Read the rest of this entry »
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