For France, the easiest thing would be to learn from its failure in Mali by breaking camp once and for all.
After a decade spent tracking down jihadists in the Sahelian sands, the graves of 53 of our soldiers, the longest French external operation since the Algerian war has reached the end of its logic.
We are no longer welcome in this country which called us for help in 2012: the junta brought to power by a double coup, Putin's mercenaries who have become his allies and the Islamist fighters themselves are accomplices for us in hunt.
So be it: goodbye, Bamako!
But the war against terrorism is not one that can be deserted: it imposes itself on those it strikes and catches up with them when they seek to escape it.
This gives justification to Emmanuel Macron for
“opening a new page of international engagement”
in the Sahel, political dressing up of a rout that should not look like Kabul – at the risk of…
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