The date of August 15 obviously invites comparison.
A year after the American departure from Afghanistan, France, in turn, is withdrawing from its main theater of operations against the jihadist octopus, in northeastern Mali.
In the manner, the contrast is clear, clearly to the advantage of the French army: an orderly, methodical and dignified withdrawal, far from the chaos and the stampede given in spectacle by the first army of the world last year in Kabul .
France will have been irreproachable at both ends of its Sahelian adventure: during its lightning intervention, in January 2013, to prevent the Islamist columns from taking Bamako, and when it left without a fuss on Monday.
Between the two, the exercise of the balance sheet on the merits is almost as cruel for the former colonial power playing the saviors in Africa as for the American invader in Iraq and Afghanistan.
France scored punctual points, temporarily securing various portions of vast Mali…
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