Al-Qaida taking over Mali

[eddie]

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.

[eddie]

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?

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by eddie

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.

[Cybermat47]

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

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by eddie

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?

My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what, together, we can do for the freedom of man.

- JFK

Somehow that part of his speech is often forgotten.

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

- 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.

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".

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?

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?

[Morts]

Originally Posted by August

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.

Whatever floats your boat

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by eddie

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?

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?