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Not a bad week for The Empire in Africa
First of all, you've got United States Army War College grad General al-Sisi winning an election in Egypt. al-Sisi is still a youngish man, so by the expected life-span standards of middle-east despots his victory should sew up Egypt for Western interests for the next thirty years or so.
Meanwhile, right next door in oil-rich Libya, US citizen and “rogue” Libyan General Khalifa Haftar is doing God's work imposing order on the 1001 Libyan militias that have run amok over the past three years. Both of our generals are committed to crushing the Muslim Brotherhood, and both have better relations with Israel than they do with Palestinians.
At the same time, our allies in Kenya and Nigeria have doubled down on the “terrorist threats” in their midst, promising “all-out-war” against al-Shabab and Boko Haram respectively. Those declarations of perpetual war can only be music to the ears of AFRICOM boss General David Rodriguez.
So while it may no longer be a perfect world, rumours of The Empire's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
Source: http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2014/05/not-bad-week-for-empire-in-africa.html
