Silence? Here’s my comment again:

‘Arabs, as a population group, need dictatorhip or autocracy. When this breaks down look at the spread of anarchy.
The other option is independent states but would that help the oil hungry countries.’

Where is the racism? What is the problem? Anyone?

@ The Heathen

The worlds gone mad with this PC bullocks!!
Your comment was a fair one, and contained no racist remarks in my opinion, but theres plenty of clowns who find fault with all thats said but sure does it really bother you? :)

Opinions are like a**eholes, everyone has one and we should all be free to express ours without being labelled a racist everytime a country or ethnicity is mentioned!!

I hear you and understand where you are coming from but strict islamist sharia law must be stopped and defeated.

Why don’t you head off to Mali or Saudi Arabia or Iran & live the lives of the poor people under the control of religious nutters. God knows it took us long enough to throw of the shackles of the catholic church. Religion should be a personal choice & not be imposed on people.

Except that in this case the coup itself was because the military could see that the then government was failing to effectively deal with the combined threat of a Tuareg rebellion and an influx of islamist fighters into the region.

Well said ‘somethingodd’.

Re ‘Begrudgy’. What are you talking about? The French currently directly support Islamists in Aleppo, Syria whose first action was to ban women from driving. No outrage from France then. France also directly supported Islamists in Libya as it suited their goal of toppling Gaddafi. Libya has become a safe haven for Islamists now, so well done NATO /West, a fantastic job of delivering ‘democracy’ to Libya and freeing the region of tyranny.
France is all of a sudden against Islamists in Mali only because it suits some broader regional goals for them.

@BLowe Not to mention that the extremists killed the general in Libya who had been heading up the rebel forces.

Those broader regional goals are now more clearly to be seen. News coming out that France has sent troops to Niger to secure Uranium mines there.
This is the first time by the way that France has used troops to defend the assets of a corporation. The corporation is the private energy firm Avera(I think, trying to remember) who has two uranium mines in Niger.
Now the picture is getting clearer and Frances noble goals of stopping Islamists can be seen more for what they are.

@BLowe
Did you ever stop and think that France may just be trying to stop uranium from falling into the wrong hands?

Do you think that terrorists wouldn’t think twice about using a dirty bomb against western civilian populations if they were capable of it?

B Lowe, any thoughts on the destruction these people were doing to the ancient buildings and manuscripts of Timbuktu?

B Lowe do you ever think you’ll wake up from the Propaganda you’re swallowing? You’re as bad as the people who said there was WMD in Iraq!

@B Lowe

You remind me of Soviet supporting students in UCD in the 70s. All the did was repeat propaganda. They were 100% sure they were right, and 100% sure everyone else was a ‘bougeois’/'misguided’/'blind’ etc.

All I do is offer an opinion. Surely it am allowed to do this. I do not believe what the people who red thumb me believe but also I wouldn’t expect them to.
We all have different opinions and debate is healthy.
The only people I know who use uranium on civilians are mainly the US(Iraq etc) and Israel(depleted uranium weapons).

Arabs, as a population group, need dictatorhip or autocracy.

That gets my vote for blatantly racist comment of the day.

Think about what I am saying. To keep twenty or thirty tribes or sects together you need a strong hand, a dictator, or they need autonomy.
They have so much spilt blood over the centuries that autonomous areas is the only way forward. Look at the former Yugoslavia.

If you think I’m racist fine. You can have your opinion but I find your opinion offensive.

B Lowe
I agree there is no problem having an opinion, and debate is healthy. There is a problem when you source your opinion exclusively from seriously biased news sources that are controlled by autocratic and theocratic governments, who use crackpot experts to push their own skewed agendas. We understand that you are disillusioned by the duplicity of the west and the so called “war on terror” and the criminality of the international banking system. Our system in the west is far from perfect however, that does not mean that anything that stands against the west is therefore right by default.
In previous posts you have lauded Assad and Gaddafi as beacons of freedom and democracy, every right thinking person knows this not to be the case. As you are a fan of Putin and Russia do a bit of research on the crushing of Chechnya and then tell us that the Russians uphold your high moral standards. As for theocratic Iran, what more needs to be said about a regime that hangs protestor’s because the regime says they have declared “war on god” that is just ridiculous. On these two regimes’ you will only be scratching the surface, you won’t find any self criticism on their news channels. If you were a citizen in either of these countries and spoke out you would be labelled as a criminal and would live in constant threat of being lifted by the regimes enforcers, and believe me a nameless Twitter account would give you no protection. The west for all its faults is relatively free, people like yourself can make all sorts of allegations and allude to conspiracy and intrigue without looking over your shoulder, of course you would probably like to make out otherwise.

You are obsessed with Syria. You should marry Assad. Jabhat Al Nusra, related to Al Qaeda in Iraq, but careful to avoid AQI’s sectarian atrocities, was listed as a terrorist org by the US. The FSA factions are hostile to it. Never let facts stop a good rant.