Canada's mission to Mali dead in the water

About a year and a half ago, the newly elected Grand Chief Sunny Daze, and his Minister of Defense, Turban Guy, made waves by hinting that our great nation was about to reappear on the world stage and re-commence "punching above our weight."

It's safe to say that like most Trudeau promises, this one has fallen by the wayside, and that's probably a good thing. After all, who can forget the early days of Hollande the Conqueror's foray into Mali?

Goaded along by the unctuous twat BHL, Hollande was to "earn his spurs" by re-liberating Mali for the umpteenth time from whatever it needed to be liberated from. The legacy of colonialism, mainly, but only an imbecile of the rank of BHL would find that an appropriate task for the former colonial power.

The think tank here at Falling Downs had a lot of fun with that mission. Alas, the French didn't. Nor do the Americans, who lost three special forces soldiers  just this week. No spurs for Hollande. No spurs for Uncle Sam. Just more death and destruction. 

So you can't blame our erstwhile neo-colonialists in Ottawa for getting cold feet. No, we'll settle for punching above our weight somewhere safer. Haiti maybe.

Meanwhile, having successfully liberated Iraq and Libya and Syria and Mali, the blood-thirsty cretin BHL is currently getting oodles of free column inches in major Western media lobbying for a sovereign Kurdish state.

What could go wrong?

How to shut down the Towelheads 'o Terror

It was more than a little discomforting to hear Mr. Hollande, he of the spurs etc, not to mention the really expensive haircuts, promise to avenge the Nice travesty by ramping up the bombing of Iraq and Syria.

Apparently there's a lot of folks in our leadership circles here in the Nations of Virtue who fail to connect cause and effect.

As vile as the Nice attack was, you have to admit that a terror attack in Libya or Iraq or Afghanistan that killed a hundred people would not so much as raise an eyebrow here in the Nations of Virtue.

That's because white lives matter so much more, regardless of how much brown or even black lives matter.

So here's a thought; perhaps, if we in the virtuous West are serious about combating "terror," we begin by stopping our terrorising the Islamic nations.

All of them.

Now.

Mali will be "ten times worse than Afghanistan"

That's Mohamed Vall in an article called Bracing for chaos in north Mali.

As the weeks go by it becomes increasingly obvious that "Operation Spurs for Hollande" was nothing more than a vainglorious European politician trying to give himself a boost in the polling numbers.

The ludicrous rhetoric about the urgency of defeating al Qaeda in Mali because Mali is on Europe's back door is all but forgotten now, as are the foolish prognostications about this war being "over in days."

Barely two months in, the French are desperate to get out, most of their African allies are still waiting to hear who will pay them, and the UN has a plan for 11,000 "peace-keepers" that will take at least a year to put in place.

Before the French intervention the residents of north Mali had a tough go of it.

Now they're screwed.

Triumphant Hollande to run for president of Mali

Hollande the Conqueror did a victory tour of Mali today.

Get a load of how they ladle on the bombast at the Telegraph.

Like a Roman conqueror, President Francois Hollande raised his palms in triumph...

Indeed! The only thing to do now is to raise his middle finger to the unruly mobs of ingrates in Paris and wish them well.

A leader needs to lead where he is welcomed and appreciated. For Hollande that appears to be Mali and not France.

Bamako calling!