Nearly 2,000 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Nigeria this week . . .

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25. Your inter mingling two separate issues -

One) People on DU are rather familiar with our rather lousy record of going in and "providing stability, ridding an area of boogie men" etc. A lot of us were not thrilled about the idea of rushing into to save yet another country, even though the situation with the missing Nigerian girls was tragic. (I mean, especially given that the nation of Iraq, for which over a ten year period we supposedly "tried to help rid itself of boogie man Saddam Hussein and tried to help it become a democracy" is now being assaulted by ISIS. And our ten years there cost us some 6,000 service people, a quarter of a million of our service people wounded, either physically or mentally, and then perhaps as many as 900,000 Iraqi civilians were killed! And for a cost of something like 2 to 4 trillion US dollars, as well!)

When a person examines the international situation, one finds that the New Zealand people, Australian, European and Scandinavians, and the Japanese are now providing worthwhile and successful charity activities for third world nations. So maybe we should let them be the warrior nations to "stabilize regions, eliminate boogie men and provide a demcoratic form of government, wherever needed.

Two) There are teams of news reporters for such illustrious newspapers as Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Guardian, etc who are reporting on things from the capital of Nigeria. Our news agencies can't seem to even get a reporter to cover events in the various capitals of some of our more imporant states, let alone Nigeria.