IS FRANCE about to embark on another African military intervention?
Things certainly seem to be moving very fast in Paris. Just over ten
months after it dispatched soldiers and fighter jets to push back an
Islamist incursion in Mali, the French are putting things into place in
order to launch another operation, possibly as early as next week, this
time in the Central African Republic (CAR).
This is Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister, making the case for intervention in Le Figaro,
a newspaper, on November 25th. He described a “collapsed state” in
which violence, rape and executions by armed gangs was turning into
inter-religious hatred. Intervention always had a cost. But, he wrote:
“We don’t want tomorrow to pay the far higher price of inaction”.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/11/french-foreign-policy
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