Al-Qaida taking over Mali
 

They are digging in too. Using abandoned construction equipment to dig into mountains, build tunnels, creating storage facilities in the side of mountains for supplies, going Green by putting up solar panels etc to supply their own electricity.

Now what are the rest of the world going to do about it?

http://news.msn.com/world/al-qaida-c...r-global-jihad

Doesn't your countries anti al-qaida operations in Mali date back to just after the 9/11 attacks.
If they are now taking over Mali shouldn't you be asking "what have we done wrong?" instead of asking what the rest of the world are going to do about it.
Since unless you know what has failed already its a bit pointless asking others what they intend to do.

Why does it always have to be the United States, what's the matter, doesn't the other countries in the West have the guts to step up?

You mean like another Afganistan? Sorry, but thats a bit hard to sell here in Europe especially as elections are nearby.

Oh, wonderful. More people twisting the word of Islam for their own sick and twisted ways.

- JFK

Somehow that part of his speech is often forgotten.

Key word there: "together". All too often it's us and GB doing all the heavy lifting and the rest of the world confining themselves to token contributions (if that) and lots of Monday morning quarterbacking.

All too often its GB USA and France doing the heavy lifting over some tin pot dictator they setup and supplied in the firstplace, which they then replace with some other corrupt knobhead that will soon turn into another murdering tyrant so the keywords are...."but what, together, we can do for the freedom of man."
and the answer is..... "stop supporting tyranical dictators and then trying to pretend you are better than idiots like Putin when you replace one of your murdering bastards with another murdering bastard and pretend its in the noble cause of freedom".

Any thoughts on the history of Mali since independance? the ever shifting geo political games with many players? the relevance of all the neighbouring conflicts and all the international players playing silly buggers in the region? Or maybe even just the french involvement which could tie back nicely to when you had the "guts" to step up after them like in Vietnam?

Or is it just a "why US?" whinge?

I suggest an adopt-a-bomb system. European countries pay for a bomb and the US makes a drone strike with it

French intervention continues.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mali-attack...145745060.html
one of their pilots was killed today after his helicopter went down.

"Why does it always have to be the United States, what's the matter, doesn't the other countries in the West have the guts to step up?"

Whatever floats your boat :doh:

DING DING DING DING !

You have won the grand prize!

Now for the uber bajillion googolplex dollar grand prize!

What country pays a majority to the UN in manpower, equipment and money, yet gets smoked (world opinion wise) over any military action it takes?

Hooray France! :Kaleun_Cheers:

You give prizes for the wrong answer?
Are you the one thats been running the treasury into the ground?

Not the country you are thinking of:yep:

Oh sorry you give prizes for the wrong answer so..... DING DING DING
USA USA USA USA:rotfl2:

Here, guys, I brought some nails and a few hammers. There's a great oak right there on the side of the road that anyone so inclined can nail themselves on while waiting for the proper cross to arrive. Help yourselves, no need to thank me.

Have they surrendered yet??

They are waiting for the cheese to ripen

With their current associates at least they won't suffer from any blue-on-blue incidents. :-?

Just in case Tribesman is in your block list... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mali-attack...145745060.html

Lets see if Soopa can hit home the final nail on his UN manpower claim.

(A)India~8000 Pakistan~8000

(B)Cameroon~100 Burundi~100

Place each of the following countries in the correct group
USA
Bangladesh.