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Originally Posted by sunchaser
Yup Bush did it. If one forgets Middle East and African history before Bush and Cheney came along you'd have a (very small) point.
The Italians, French, Germans, Dutch and British unfortunately predicted what would happen in Africa as the colonies were shut down and laws, regulations, government systems, checks and balances never replaced - except of course with Islamic law and the point of a gun.
I spent some time working in West Africa in the mid-nineties. I was quite taken with Mali and the apparently good transition they had made from being a French Colony to an independent country. At that time they were concerned about NE Mali and the difficulties of "foreign" influences from the Middle East. Last year they called in the French Foreign Legion to restore order there and boot out the Islamic fringe that had taken control.
I won't even mention Rhodesia, err Zimbabwe. Or at least to mention Mugabe seems to have kept the Islamic fringe at bay.
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I thought Black hawk Down was before Bush
A case can be made that after Reagan, when many factions saw that they could do anything with wanted in Africa with no repercussions from the US, then the Sh.. really hit the fan and still is. And Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama have pretty much had a hands off policy that continues to work wonders.