It is fascinating to observe the procrastination and dilemmas of France in the Sahel, understandable, and even noble, but inextricable, after having followed all these years the painful hesitations of the United States in Afghanistan.
So many similarities in the challenges facing Western forces in the Afghan mountains and in the Sahelian sands!
Almost an inexorable script, of which the specialist Serge Michailof made five years ago a shock book to read absolutely,
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, to warn against the regional drama which is brewing in the Sahel, and which will hit us hard by rebound if we do not 'Let's be careful.
Yes, definitely, the comparison is striking: first the arrival with fanfare for an external operation "punch" intended to decapitate an international terrorist movement (in 2001 in Kabul, in 2013 in Mali).
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Then the euphoria of the rapid victory which leads to think that it is necessary to settle temporarily to "carry out the work to its end" and to pacify the country.
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