Everyone is upset and agitating over the kidnapped girls in Nigeria.
Ok, fair enough.
But what about the 50 boys that were burned alive along with their teachers? What about the killing of over 300 shoppers by this same group?
This is a foreign policy failure that can't be solved by hash-tags on Twitter. The very idea is STUPID beyond description. Christians are being attacked by Muslims in Nigeria and no one is calling it for what it is. The Nigerians have allowed a homegrown insurgency to flourish without contesting it and now its flaring out of control.
Africa is the new home for AQ and we have a decision to make.
Do we continue to play global whack-a-mole or do we decide that its not worth the effort?
If we act I can understand it (I would recommend sending Special Forces A-Teams and not conventional forces or even SEALs/MARSOC...this is an insurgency, not a raid type situation which means building up the local forces) but we need to do so because we're clear headed about it. Not propelled by a social movement that will be on to the next hot thing in a couple of weeks.
