This is the most ominous sounding news article, I have read in recent days.
U.S. Training African Forces to Uproot Terrorists
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Having learned from missteps in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American officers are pursuing this battle with a new approach. Instead of planning on a heavy American military presence, they are dispatching Special Operations forces to countries like Mali and Mauritania in West Africa to train soldiers and outfit them with pickup trucks, radios and global-positioning equipment.
Anyone remember what counter-terrorism meant in Central America? As American trained death squads swept over the land, attaining the heights -- as Chomsky puts it -- of the Nazi SS?
