Mitt Romney was right again! Yet people thought he was nuts

So many of you argued that Romney had no foreign policy experience or even knew anything about the rest of the world but he was right again!

 So, when do you think Obama will send troops into Africa? Wanna bet it will be soon? Because if he doesn't help France more than what he's doing now, you can bet your bottom dollar that another ally will bite the dust. 

Note the date on the below article:

Mali Responds To Mitt Romney

by Matt Taylor 
October 31st, 2012 | Press & Politics | Reviews | Smartest Post

 As the foreign policy debate between Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney got underway last week, the Republican presidential nominee raised eyebrows when he repeatedly broached the thorny question of Mali, the once-stable African democracy that has faced both a coup and civil war in the past year.

“Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaeda-type individuals,” Romney said in his opening statement as he made the case that the president’s approach to the Middle East (and the world) has been a catastrophic failure. However, no one from the Malian government had responded to Romney’s comments until now. In an exclusive statement to the Daily Download, Salif Sanogo, a spokesman at Mali’s embassy in Washington, D.C., said the following:

We actually followed the passage on Mali at the time of the 3rd debate between the two candidates to the presidential election. The remarks made by Mitt Romney translate indeed the gravity of the situation in the regions of the North of Mali. We do not have comments particular to make compared to this intervention, except for the fact that it was right. We once again thank you for the interest which you expressed for the situation in the regions of the North of Mali.

 http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/187026981.html

Now, NOTE THIS ARTICLE FROM YESTERDAY:

North Africa: Morocco Terror Risk Spikes

BY HASSAN BENMEHDI IN CASABLANCA AND SIHAM ALI IN RABAT, 18 JANUARY 2013

The deadly conflict now unfolding in Mali between armed Islamists and an international military coalition seems far removed from Morocco.

But with al-Qaeda working to foster ties with distant extremist circles, the active recruiting of Moroccan jihadists brings the Mali crisis perilously close to the kingdom.

In late December, the Moroccan judicial police broke up an al-Qaeda cell in Fez. The group's goal: to "enrol and recruit young Moroccans who have embraced jihadist ideas, in order to send them to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) camps", the interior ministry said.

Morocco shares no border with Mali. But that has not stopped al-Qaeda offshoot MUJAO from eyeing potential fighters from afar.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and other regional terror organisations have intensified activities aimed at undermining stability in Morocco, the interior ministry confirmed in December.

"AQIM and its ally MUJAO (Movement for Tawhid and Jihad) are now attractive to Moroccan youth imbued with the philosophy of al-Qaeda," the ministry said in a statement last month.

Feel free to read the rest of this article is here:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201301190001.html