US Troops to Fight Boko Haram in Nigeria

U.S. troops are on their way to Nigeria to help fight Boko Haram, in yet another newfangled military intervention into Africa. Boko Haram are an Islamic terrorist group, but its not clear what danger they’ve ever presented to America. Nevertheless, this new war is not much different from the Obama administration’s other martial adventures in the region, in Somalia with al Shabaab, in Uganda with the Lord’s Resistance Army, and beyond.

Read the whole article by David Axe at Wired’s Danger Room. 

Author: John Glaser

John Glaser writes for Antiwar.com.