with hundreds and eventually thousands of senseless deaths, countless refugees and over 20 years of civil war. Al Shabab also began with and still has the same goal of an Islamic state.

The Nigerian government's lack of action with this and with the kidnapping of the girls means they are either terrified of repercussions or have already been bought off. Either way, if they are no longer able or willing to protect their citizens, their legitimacy as a government is brought into question.

And the less we pay attention, the more we'll see. And dont think it stays confined to Africa either.
I'm sick of the sickness and indifference that follows it. Yet we have people here who will look at Islamist actions and say "well we have christians here trying to kill abortion doctors". Everyone is scared of the truth.

and especially in the military are allowing these thugs to operate with impunity.

That's the real tragedy, the refusal of the government to take these criminals on.

a while back...

Scolded for not "paying attention" and I should go "read up on the Nigerian conflict".



But yup, I agree with you on this. Its hard not to become suspicious about government complicity with BH on some level as the many atrocities like this one and the Chibok kidnapping are met with little to no government response.

They just haven't done much toward collecting it themselves.

They should be able to hire Blackwater/Xe/whatever-their-name-is-today
to go out there and decapitate the leadership of Boko Haram.

Erik Prince lives for that kinda mission. Cut that fool a check, Goodluck Johnathan.

Boko Haram operates in the predominately Muslim northern part of the country and the oil is located in the predominately Christian southern part of country
So unless Boko Haram becomes a real threat in the South, don't hold your breath for Goodluck to do much of anything, I get the impression for the President and his wife Patience bad PR seems more of a problem than what's actually happening

Boko Haram is becoming more and more brazen in the scope of their operations.

They need to be cut off logistically, leadership wise, and financially.

If the Nigerian govt won't handle it, I guess it will be one more mission for our AFRICOM forces. (good thing we have that directorate in place, right?)

The U.S. is fairly religious and I can think of dozens of countries which are much more religious than the U.S. Yet I don't seem to see hundreds and thousands of people being slaughtered here in the name of religion. Is the media covering it up?

either way though you're very correct

The U.S. is not trying to convert Afgans or Iraqis to any religion.

More accurately I think, this is what humanity brings...

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.