US Claims Link Between Benghazi Attack and Mali ‘Powder Keg’
Sees Result of Last Year's Intervention as Excuse for More Interventions
Struggling to come to grips with the notion of cause and effect, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed in a recent speech that she believes the recent attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi was the result of the “powder keg” of terrorist activity in Mali.
There is no indication from any of the reports that the attack had anything to do with any Malian faction, and was blamed on a local militant faction called Ansar al-Sharia Benghazi (ASB).
Indeed, lost in all of this is that the Mali situation, with the northern half of Azawad now under the control of Ansar Dine, is itself a direct result of the 2011 US attack on Libya in the first place. The US attacks left massive weapons caches in Tripoli unguarded, looted by Tuareg mercenaries fighting in Libya. The Tuaregs returned to Mali to launch a secessionist war in Azawad, which eventually left Ansar Dine in charge.
Instead of correctly seeing Mali as a consequence of their ill-conceived intervention in Libya, the Obama Administration is trying to spin the effect as the cause, and use it as an excuse for military intervention in Mali.
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October 1st, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Well, here is the justification to Drone Mali. As usual, the US Administration is treating the world as Fools.
ATM
October 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 am
This crissis was predicted in the early 1970s. Well this really goes back a long ways in cause and effect. The key problem in the region is the advancing Sahel and the fact that the folks in the north are starving. They will do anything to get help i.e. civil war. A long time ago before the Cold War ended we were working on food shortage issue, in north. The problem is we did not resolve food shortage. We slowed down aid projects at end of cold war and reneged on responsibility of world leader. If we had accomplished our goals from the 1970s we could have avoided the current problem without great drama and human suffering and avoided war al together. Penny wise a pound foolish we are.