Mali

[Sickofleft]

Remember way back when Romney during the 2012 campaign mentioned Mali as a trouble spot and was mocked by the brilliant CIC who currently occupies the White House.................

 

[georgephillip]

There isn't a nickle's worth of difference between Mitt and Barry when it comes to Mali or Africom:
"Mali has faced a radical insurgency since 2012, when Islamist militants seized northern areas.

"A French-led intervention ousted them the following year, but violence continues across the country.

"For context on the hostage crisis in Mali, we turn to Nick Turse, whose book 'Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa' explores the expanding American battlefield in Africa, where the U.S. military is now involved in more than 90 percent of Africa’s 54 nations.

"Turse discusses how the U.S.-backed intervention in Libya helped fuel the ongoing militant violence in nearby Mali."
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/20/bamako_hostage_crisis_how_us_backed