The Tuareg secessionist movement The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (NMLA) came one step closer to realizing their dream today, capturing the legendary city of Timbuktu along the Niger River and pushing the Malian military nearly entirely out of their claimed territory.
Timbuktu isn’t a particularly rich or large city anymore, and is perhaps more symbolic than strategically valuable, but the Tuareg fighters overran it fairly easily, capping off a weekend which saw them take the other major city downriver, Gao.
Reports say that the Mali military abandoned the city almost immediately, and that the fighting was between the Tuaregs and Arab militias from inside the side. Though the NMLA has centered its demands on Tuareg-dominated territory, the southern cities like Timbuktu are predominantly non-Tuareg.
The Mali military junta, which seized the country just over a week ago and is now pleading for foreign intervention to help them stop the Tuaregs, appears to be backing off some of its claims as well, announcing that it is restoring the constitution. The coup was a response to a failing war strategy, but the conflict doesn’t appear to be going any better since the ouster of the civilian government.
Don't worry–USAFRICOM to the rescue!
It is difficult to keep up with the world trouble spots. Every day they seem to multiply. It's hard to get a sense of what is happening overall, who is winning and who is losing.
I get the sense that the world is losing, that it is groaning under the weight of its warring, greedy human flotsam.
Then you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear can you?
Signs of modern illegitimacy around the whole world. E.G.: The wole world knows the Americans – biggest power – routinely lie as they pleases. So eventually all life turns into a false kind of being. Not based on anything than power here and now!
Congratulations to USA for exterminating humans from the world! Perhaps not deliberately, but at what time did we judge some kind of vampires or living-deads in regard to humans in terms of their own "thoughts" or "beliefs"?. Wouldn't we try and exterminate as many as possible as soon as possible to save humans.
Please say your prayers as solemnly and heartbreaking as it might become, and then exterminate yourselves. To let real people – not (falsely selfish) declaration robots – inhabit the world.
Frankly: Does the world need you? Not for knowledge, nor for pretensions, scientifically developed deviations, starting of wars, undermining of people's possible opinions….
Please give me a list of in what sense Americans are at all needed in our world. And if no lists makes sense, then please take the consequence!
I do not mean: kill yourself! But start to THINK about life, knowledge foundation, politics, rights… The role of you being the JUDGE of the whole world, as you nourish at present, is absolutely ridiculous! From the outset a no-starter.
So! Please Americans, do humanity a big favour!