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Hollande’s halo fading fast

Saturday, February 9, 2013 14:52
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Is it possible that on the same day, Africans in Mali are chanting “merci Papa Hollande,” while a couple of borders away in Tunisia, crowds are chanting “France out?”

According to this article from The Economist, the “Mali bounce” in Hollande’s poll numbers has been a short-lived phenomenon indeed.

And that’s less than 30 days into an occupation that will have to last for years, if not decades, if the goal is to snuff out Islamic insurgency for good.

That of course will never happen unless and until the causes of these so-called “Islamic” insurgencies are addressed, and then we face the fact that “Islamic” insurgencies are at root no different than insurgencies in other contexts.

Insurgents become that because they are fed up with being under the thumb or the boot of whatever power is depriving them of the right to choose their own path in the world.

It is only a matter of time until the crowds in Mali are making the same chants as their African brothers in Tunisia.



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