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by microcolonel 2389 days ago
> ...namely the Islamic groups that want to kill Americans. Right now the warlords just kill other Africans, which the U.S. government considers a win...

The Islamic killers kill more Africans too. Boko Haram are killing far more Somalis than they are Americans or Europeans. It is cynical, but it's probably not (on balance) morally wrong to support the opposition, god knows BH and friends get plenty of foreign support from our favourite Islamic customer in the middle east and others, so it's not as though the Americans are the only ones corrupting the failed state there.