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France to start pulling troops from Mali next month
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said troops will continue operations in northern Mali, where he said “some terrorist havens remain.”…
“We are serving a cause defined within the United Nations’ framework … to bring the entire Malian territory under the legitimate authority of the Malian president and then the leaders who will be elected by the Malians,” Hollande said Saturday.
French troops, he said, are not in Mali to venture into politics.
“I have enough to do with French politics,” he said. “So we are at the service of a mission which was defined from the call of the Malian president and within the framework of the Security Council resolutions.”
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I’m surprised they could afford to do what they did. I hope they didn’t waste their time and money.
rhombus on February 6, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Wow! You mean the French troops aren’t going to stay there for over a decade building roads and school, as well as training third rate soldiers and police while getting shot in the back by those very same students? You mean they aren’t going to nation build? They aren’t going to leave 60K troops to guard some DMZ that the Mali people should be guarding? What a novel approach. The USA on the other hand is still in South Korea, still in Kosovo, still in Kuwait and still in Afghanistan. All the while our own borders remain open.
MoreLiberty on February 6, 2013 at 3:47 PM
“The Enemy retreats we advance.-Mao”
More Liberty you see what the French are doing which so approve is is actually wasting, time, treasure and blood….the French will go home and the insurgents will return….
IF Mali could have dealt with them, on it’s own, it would have done so, already.
JFKY on February 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM
Terrorists to return on April 1st…
Logus on February 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM
MetaThought on February 6, 2013 at 3:59 PM
Good point. They should stay their forever, that way the insurgents never come back. Yawn.
MoreLiberty on February 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM
Which is why they enjoyed such and easy “victory”. Why fight an enemy who you know will leave as soon as the wine runs out? Better to take a short vacation till they leave.
Rocks on February 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM
Who said I approve of the Frenchies? My point was regarding our disastrous foreign policy. Personally I don’t think the French should have went in, none of their business.
MoreLiberty on February 6, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Mission Accomplished!
Abelard on February 6, 2013 at 4:11 PM
nice Strawman..there is a difference between nation-building and staying forever…
But tell me what good comes of using francs, and blood and killing Malians, IF the end result is that one week later the Insurgents are back in the towns?
Possibly in Moreliberty land we ‘teach them a lesson” or “turn it into a parking lot’ but in the rest of reality those aren’t really options….
JFKY on February 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM
I’m sure they are going to require us to give them a ride home.
Must be nice to be allies with a country as rich as the United States.
Ditkaca on February 6, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Send them a bill for the trip home.
SC.Charlie on February 6, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Blow everything up then leave.
And ignore the consequences.
The modern day European war doctrine. (See Libya.)
The order has been given:
“Déployer les drapeaux blancs de rachat!”
(“Unfurl the white surrender flags!”)
albill on February 6, 2013 at 5:58 PM