If you are wondering whose side we are on, don't ask me. I have no clue. Even after all the murderous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and even after the kidnapping of 300 mostly Christian schoolgirls, who stand to be sold into sexual slavery, our government doesn't want the Nigerian government and their army to come down too hard on them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/17/us-nigeria-violence-raids-idUSBRE94G0AF20130517?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22
"We are ... deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism."
-John Kerry
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The Nigerian forces did not get the memo that only Obama can use drones or attacks from the air, so "Swift-Boat" Kerry says:
"Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations."
Squid
Gary, are you really as ignorant as you sound? Everyone who knows anything about Nigeria has been sounding off for years about how the country's poorly trained (and poorly paid) army is running rough shod over the entire civilian population in the northern half of the country, because the troops are too incompetent to find the terrorists, and don't really fancy risking their lives getting into an actual fight with them.
(Did you miss the bulletin that villagers in the town where the girls were kidnapped had warned the army that Boko Haram forces had been seen camped in the area, the soldiers did nothing, because they might get into a fight if they acted on the information?)
Treating the entire civilian population with brutality is a recipe for finding your troops blind, deaf and dumb in terms of intelligence, or maybe even inspiring people to join whoever it is you say you are after. Nothing converted apolitical Vietnamese to support the Viet Cong like American planes indiscriminately bombing their villages on the assumption that the elusive guerillas were somewhere out there.
"Why are those planes bombing us?"
"Because they don't like communists."
"They don't? Well whatever that is, that's what I want to be, so I can shoot down those planes."
Nigeria hasn't done beans to attack Boko Haram -- the the brutality of the army toward everyone BUT Boko Haram deserves a strong rebuke and a swift kick, except Nigeria is a sovereign nation, so we can't do that in their own territory.
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