Former French PM: Mali Intervention Not Well Thought Out, Not French Way, Kind of Like Iraq
Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin has warned that military intervention in Mali risked dragging the country into an interminable conflict in the former French colony, was ill thought-out, and “not the French way”.
In an editorial for the Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, Villepin compared France’s mission to stem Islamists advances into southern Mali to “a decade of lost wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya”.
Source: France 24. Read full article. (link)
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Cause killing them in their far away home base works. It's military 101 Dominique.