Posted on 02/13/2015 1:12:08 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Violent attacks by Boko Haram have caused many to flee their homes, creating a humanitarian crisis within Nigeria and neighboring countries.
Refugees say they have witnessed brutal acts of savagery, with men's throats being slit and women being held as "war booty."
Chad has become the latest country on the border with Nigeria to be affected by a Boko Haram attack.
The BBC's Tom Oladipo went to Yola village in Aadamawa state in northeast Nigeria and spoke to refugees there.
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And at the Canadian border. Those people will let anyone in.
What about Iraq and Syria?
Aren’t there Kurdish boots on the ground along with the Iraqi military to deal with ISIS? The FSA is taking on ISIS, too.
Should we just send in more and more arms there AND do the same with Nigeria - send them arms to deal with Boko Haram?
If we are willing to arm the Kurds and others in Iraq/Syria and willing to arm the Ukrainian military, should/can we do the same with Nigeria?
Savagery is no stranger to the Middle East, either.
If they have publicly aligned themselves with ISIS, is Boko Haram also a threat to the U.S.?
If some conservative pundits are willing to bring up liberating the people of Iraq as justification for toppling Saddam, why don’t they use the same rhetoric concerning Boko Haram?
Isn't any plan to go to Syria.
ISIS is already 12 miles out from Baghdad Intl Airport ... and are now preparing to lay siege to a town 25 miles from Baghdad in order to control a transportation corridor that can be connected to two of the operations HQs...
Iraq is so "devoted" to protecting their turf that it seems when they deploy troops, it's rarely more than 500 at a time.
That's just not going to serve as any kind of "stop sign" to these thugs.
But what about liberating Iraq from Saddam and thus liberating Nigeria and Africa from Boko Haram?
Was toppling Saddam the really only needed justification for going into Iraq as some conservative media pundits point out?
We should be arming the Kurds, and the Sunni tribal leaders. This whole problem with ISIS wouldn’t have happened if the Shiite Iraqi government hadn’t attacked the same Sunni tribal leaders that helped us win during the surge. So the Sunnis in the Iraqi military walked away rather than face ISIS. Those leaders recently came to Washington to beg for help in fighting ISIS because the Shiite defense minister won’t pass on any aid to them while they are being killed by ISIS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3257222/posts
We should also quit trying to support “good jihadis” against Bashir Assad, and cooperate with his government against ISIS. There just isn’t anyone better who realistically can replace him.
IMHO divide and conquer should be our basic strategy in dealing with the Islamic world. Britain used it to conquer half the world. But we have to realize we won’t be allying ourselves with a bunch of boy scouts. If we insist our allies live up to our notions of morality we will fail.
Lindsey Graham and Scott Walker have both said that it may be necessary to put U.S. boots on the ground in Syria.
The only ones that I know of who have said no to this are Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
First answer the question if the Nigerian army isn't willing to fight Boko Haram then why should we? And I'd ask the same question about ISIS and the Iraqi army.
So perhaps there should be no more talk of “Nazis” and putting U.S. boots on the ground and do as you say (which seems to be quite a convincing argument).
And perhaps we could arm Chad and the Nigerian government to deal with Boko Haram like some want to arm the Ukrainian gov’t to deal with pro-Russian separatists?
>>National socialism have been linked to Islamic terror ever
>>since the end of WWII. Arab nationalism + Islamic
>>socialism = Islamic national socialism.
The self-worshiping state-establishment wherein:
“COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM”—Jefferson
Same ol Ba’al shyte, different municipal toilet.
The Kurds are still a largely militia force battling against both ISIS and Syrian/Iranian regulars. Ukraine is facing open aggression from a formidable power. Both cases are far removed from the situation that Nigeria, a sovereign nation, is facing from an insurgency still largely within its own borders.
I’m not opposed to assisting Nigeria if it can do some good, especially as concerns the new multi-national command being set up. My only concern is that it stay a primarily Nigerian fight.
Let Nigeria handle their own problems, we should offer support and equipment though
Some say the Nigerian gov’t is corrupt, some say it has been fighting Boko Haram to the best of its ability and others say not so much.
So we should just arm the gov’t in Chad, Nigeria, and surrounding African nations to deal with Boko Haram?
If so, should, we do the same in Iraq and Syria to deal with ISIS given that the Iraqi gov’t has had charges of corruption levied against it and that they don’t seem too willing to fight?
Subhuman savages.
Let Iraq handle its own problems?
I would prefer we deal with tribal leaders in most places. Governments there are corrupt and may even use the aid to suppress the people we want to help. Also in a tribal society people’s first loyalty is to their tribe. Strengthening the central government undermines tribal power and turns the tribesmen against us. Just look at Afghanistan and Iraq.
we can’t invade the whole world.
Is that what some do concerning Iraq - in that they say toppling Saddam was worth it because he was barbaric to his own people?
HOw come all the proud to be African-Americans in this country aren’t outraged at the atrocities going on in their homeland??
Yes.
At best we should be hunting and assassinating the people who are funding and equipping ISIS, and destroying their assets (including state actors...).
But it is up the locals to defend themselves. We might help them equip if they seem competent and determined (like the Kurds). Maybe throw in some airstrikes.
But no troops.
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