The US was literally training these guys to fight Boko Haram and ISIS, not for taking over other countries, militant groups and threats from unstable neighbors are a very real threat for the people of Niger, so by your logic just let a bunch of marauding assholes continue to be a plague upon the continent and Niger specifically?
Doctors and teachers and election administrators we teach can’t turn around and shoot the hospitals schools and community centers you gave them at you, can’t say the same about soldiers and weapons.
Also, our military presence in the area drew in/recruited way more terrorists to the region than we were ever able to neutralize
Also, our military presence in the area drew in/recruited way more terrorists to the region than we were ever able to neutralize
GTFO, lol, so by that logic the US had a military presence in Rwanda during the genocide? What about Sudan (whom is not US allies but Russian)? What about all of these many other examples? You might as well have just commented “US bad” and it still would have been as factually correct.
Doctors and teachers and election administrators we teach can’t turn around and shoot the hospitals schools and community centers you gave them at you, can’t say the same about soldiers and weapons.
As an American you should be embarrassed at how little you know about how your tax money is being spent to help the world grow to become a better place.
Neo-Colonialism. The U.S. isn’t just doing it for “freedom.” They expect things in return. Whether profits from resource extraction, or just to prevent Russia/ China gaining a foothold.
Also, when the US trained soldier tells the US trained doctor, “We’ve gotta look like we’re fighting terrorism if we want to keep getting money from the US, so hand over anyone who comes into your hospital from the wrong neighborhood and we’ll practice those enhanced interrogation techniques on them,” the net effect for the US’s image is a negative one. When we go looking for terrorism and say we’re handing out lots of resources to anyone who will help us find terrorism, we just end up finding a lot of “terrorism” and creating a lot of terrorists.
It’s like an incredibly predictable consequence of the same mistakes U.S. officials have been making over and over since the 1900s
The US was literally training these guys to fight Boko Haram and ISIS, not for taking over other countries, militant groups and threats from unstable neighbors are a very real threat for the people of Niger, so by your logic just let a bunch of marauding assholes continue to be a plague upon the continent and Niger specifically?
Doctors and teachers and election administrators we teach can’t turn around and shoot the hospitals schools and community centers you gave them at you, can’t say the same about soldiers and weapons.
Also, our military presence in the area drew in/recruited way more terrorists to the region than we were ever able to neutralize
GTFO, lol, so by that logic the US had a military presence in Rwanda during the genocide? What about Sudan (whom is not US allies but Russian)? What about all of these many other examples? You might as well have just commented “US bad” and it still would have been as factually correct.
Oh the US doesn’t help train and assist doctors and teachers in Africa? Election Administrators?
As an American you should be embarrassed at how little you know about how your tax money is being spent to help the world grow to become a better place.
Neo-Colonialism. The U.S. isn’t just doing it for “freedom.” They expect things in return. Whether profits from resource extraction, or just to prevent Russia/ China gaining a foothold.
Also, when the US trained soldier tells the US trained doctor, “We’ve gotta look like we’re fighting terrorism if we want to keep getting money from the US, so hand over anyone who comes into your hospital from the wrong neighborhood and we’ll practice those enhanced interrogation techniques on them,” the net effect for the US’s image is a negative one. When we go looking for terrorism and say we’re handing out lots of resources to anyone who will help us find terrorism, we just end up finding a lot of “terrorism” and creating a lot of terrorists.