What is that thing that looks like ISIL, quacks like ISIL, but is not ISIL? Well, you may have already guessed it, that is Boko Haram. They have proclaimed their own Caliphate too, but in the north-eastern parts of Nigeria. They also shock with their cruelty, which is escalating every next year. Although Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy and one
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However, should the Nigerian military become competent...I would think there would be another blood-bath to wring ones' hands over. Which presents all new moral dilemmas: do we object to the wholesale slaughter of the bad looney religious jihadist types by bad fascist army types, or do we just turn a blind eye on the matter?
It is all horrible, and then we die. :)
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And it's not as if the "root causes" are obvious in jihadists, any more than they are with religious fanatics anywhere, excepting I suppose for the call of the various prophets and messiahs, and the books of the religions which espouse particular rites of worship or catechisms of orthodoxy.
Corruption in Nigeria is endemic, true,..and tribalism too, but changing those patterns of behaviour takes time - generations, even; unless imposed from outside...(how very colonialist) but Boko Haram is a current problem.
Maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic, and there is a quick fix - but the usual method of throwing money at things may be insufficient.
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"We do things not because they're easy, we do them because they're hard". - JFK
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Hard is easy...impossible takes at least a week, with goodwill on all sides too.
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We should try it though. At least once.
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