AFRICOM – Staggering But Not Yet Down For The Count
NOVANEWS
Mark P. Fancher
AFRICOM - Staggering But Not Yet Down For The Count
“The AFRICOM serpent has spent more than a decade slithering into almost every African country and establishing a venomous presence.”
Even though Donald Trump thinks Africa is a “shit hole” the continent forced its way into his life anyway in October when four U.S. soldiers were killed in Niger. After Trump deflected blame to others and made a soldier’s widow cry, he apparently returned quickly to his fantasies about boatloads of Norwegian immigrants swarming Ellis Island.
The military establishment was not so quick to change the subject. Their detailed investigation of the Niger matter has produced what is reported to be a damning assessment of the capacity of the U.S. military to carry out its imperialis...