Saturday, February 23, 2013
Our Expanding Empire
As the was in Shitholeistan is winding down, the Military Industrial Complex and their Pentagon flunkies need places to put their equipment to properly police the part of the world that do not already acknowledge our hegemony.
The new drone base, located for now in the capital, Niamey, is an indication of the priority Africa has become in American antiterrorism efforts. The United States military has a limited presence in Africa, with only one permanent base, in Djibouti, more than 3,000 miles from Mali, where insurgents had taken over half the country until repelled by a French-led force.Oh goody, the troops are covered by extrality, just like in the good old days of the British empire. And doesn't it make you feel so much more comfortable to know we have plenty of money to police the world. Kind of makes running out of Unemployment or SNAP easier to take.
In a letter to Congress, Mr. Obama said about 40 United States military service members arrived in Niger on Wednesday, bringing the total number of those deployed in the country to about 100 people. A military official said the troops were largely Air Force logistics specialists, intelligence analysts and security officers.
Mr. Obama said the troops, who are armed for self-protection, would support the French-led operation that last month drove the Qaeda and affiliated fighters out of a desert refuge the size of Texas in neighboring Mali.
Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, signed a status-of-forces agreement last month with the United States that has cleared the way for greater American military involvement in the country and has provided legal protection to American troops there.
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