The US’s involvement in the French-led military offensive in Mali, however limited, is a pointless policy completely lacking a robust security justification, as Mali and its militants pose no threat.
According to The New York Times, “officials in Washington still have only an impressionistic understanding of the militant groups that have established a safe haven in Mali, and they are divided about whether some of these groups even pose a threat to the United States.”
In other words, the officials making policy in Washington have little to no idea of the underlying forces at work in Mali and many think the situation poses no threat to the US.
In addition, there is an obvious blowback factor here. The Times report adds that “a Western military intervention could transform militant groups that once had only a regional focus into avowed enemies of the United States — in other words, that the backlash might end up being worse than the original threat.”
“Washington,” the Associated Press reports, “is concerned that greater US involvement could make Mali a magnet for would-be jihadis from elsewhere.”
Indeed, immediately following the French-led military offensive in Mali, the Islamist militants suddenly became unified against foreign intervention. Those holding hostages in Algeria have said explicitly that it is a response to the Western intervention in Mali.
The Obama administration is aiding the French offensive in Mali to a considerable extent. However, officials have denied any plans to send in troops, while claiming they are still coming to a decision on whether or not to provide the French with intelligence support for their air assaults.
It may be hard to decipher clearly what our government's intentions are in Mali, but if their actions in Syria, Libya and elsewhere in Africa are any clue, it could be to control real estate containing valuable resources or access to other countries with such resources- so, for example Mali is the neighbor of Algeria, a country that has been in the U.S. sights for some years, and also neighbor to Niger, which is rich in uranium and the northern neighbor of Nigeria, which is not only rich in oil, but also host to significant Chinese investment. If the reports about his father's ties to the CIA in Indonesia and connection to overthrow of Sukarno are true, Obama was brought up on this very type intrigue and clandestine geopolitical conflict as a way to control and exploit resources and destroy competitors, a cynical business that is justified as necessary to protect the nation in a Hobbesian world, and Obama intimated as much in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech when he distanced himself from Gandhi and Martin Luther King and justified war as it honored peace, though one may not have expected that he would initiate wars of aggression so readily.
Interesting, how very interesting. "look before you leap" how extraordinarily
uncharacteristic that is for the MICC, afterall there's money to be made.
Or could it be that the USA is BANKRUPT, and simply can't afford
any more of these rediculous mis-adventures ?!
http://www.bullionstreet.com/news/africas-mali-pr…. Germany wants it's gold back from France and The NY Federal Reserve.
From Wikipedia …
"Natural resources:
Mali is endowed with bauxite, copper, diamonds, gold, Granite, gypsum, iron ore, kaolin, limestone, lithium, manganese, phosphates, salt, silver, uranium, and zinc, but not all deposits are being exploited"