Seven years ago this month the Communications Minister of Mali was confidently predicting that the war against the evil-doers in Mali would be over in a matter of days. Manga Dembele's burst of overconfidence was due to the fact that Mali's colonial overlords had recently committed to ridding the country of the Islamists and separatists then running amok.
In the words of renowned French "public intellectual" BHL, the Mali adventure was going to give Hollande the Conqueror an opportunity to "earn his spurs."
The spurless Hollande has long ridden into the sunset, and now it's the new Emperor's turn. We read of Macron "reading the riot act" to his African vassals.
"Buck up, Homies, we can't go on bringing you freedom and democracy forever... "
Left unsaid is that the French are in Africa mainly to do the job Ghadaffi used to do for us, namely keeping the African masses in Africa. We fixed that too, with a goodly dose of freedom, human rights, and democracy...
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