French military targets Islamist rebels in Mali

[Andre]

First I heard about this was a local newscast tonight. Sounds like it was centered around a failed hostage rescue but they are pretty tight lipped so far. Figures with the number of citizens they have in the immediate region they feel the urge to actually do something but I'd be hesitant to stand to close with them mainly because you have to think they'll secure their own interest and hop on the next plane out, rebels taking dirt naps or not.

When was the last time the French won a war, when Napoleon was there? There's several thousand French citizens living in Southern Mali, other then that I can't see why France would give a fuck about being in that desert shithole.

The French citizens are running French companies out there. It's the French companies insisting the French government does something about their investments that made the French bomb the rebels. Otherwise they'd just evacuate their people like western countries do in conflict countries where we don't have investments.

Excusez mon impolitesse M.