Saving Mali before it's too late

This impassioned plea  for help hits all the hot buttons. Notice that northern Mali is in the hands of terrorists and drug-traffickers who rape women, press children into their terror and drug-trafficking gangs, and hack off limbs willy-nilly.

The writer appeals for help from the US and France.

Ever since the tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of Canadian politics contradicted one another last week about whether Canada intends to play a role in the liberation of Mali there has been a subtle sales job foisted on the public designed to push the pro-intervention case. This scary story appeared on the Ottawa Citizen website this afternoon. The drug-trafficking jihadi rapists are moving towards the south and now clearly threaten the entire country.

And the south is where the Canadian mining operations are to be found. This will no doubt seal the deal in Ottawa.

"Before it's too late" is code for ASAP. This can't wait till the September date that the UN envisioned.  Those marauding jihadi rapists who hack off limbs and use children as sex slaves are on the move NOW!

Nor can such an important mission be left to Africans. AU intervention is simply not up to the challenge. This is a job for Massah.

Ergo, the US and France and probably Canada must act NOW.

These are three of the countries that have been saving Afghanistan since 2001. How is that going?

In 2004 they took the time to save Haiti too, saving the country from its democratically elected leader Aristide. How is Haiti doing?

In 2011 all three participated in the salvation of Libya. How did that turn out for the Libyans?

Let's hope the rebels save Mali before it's too late.