US trained forces in Mali defected to the Islamic terror side at the most crucial moment-NY Times. 'Romney was laughed at by media for bringing Mali up before the election'-commenter

1/14/13, "French jets hit Mali after U.S. trained fighters join jihadists," NY Times, Adam Nossiter, Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti

"The same U.S.-trained units that had been seen as the best hope of repelling such an advance proved, in the end, to be a linchpin in the country’s military defeat."... 

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"KAOS wrote:

Independent Thinker wrote:
 

"The fruit of years of careful U.S. training, defected when they were needed most — taking troops, guns, trucks and their newfound skills to the enemy in the heat of battle"

Looks like we were supporting the wrong people, again. Let's just hope we don't get dragged into another war here. Funny how there was no mention of any of this during the election. All we heard was that Al Queida was on the run since the killing of Bin Laden."

For those who were listening, Romney brought the Mali situation up more then once, he even mentioned it in the debates, but was laughed at for bringing it up and was accused of knowing nothing about foreign policy and he had no credibility to speak about the situation. The subject was dismissed by the main street media because there was nothing to see there. They also could not allow Obama to be upstaged by his opponent. The main street media chose to ignore and cover up Obama’s missteps in Benghazi, so why would they bring attention to Mali? In my opinion, the killing of Bin Laden did not weaken Al- Queida, it strengthened it. Remember what terrorists have said after Bin Laden was killed, “We are all Bin Laden”

Where there is smoke there is fire…….except, of course, if you ignore it."

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"Susan77 wrote:

 If this isn't a perfect example of why we need to stop being the world's police, I don't know what is." 




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