US Finds 'Christian Genocide' to Justify Nigerian Bombing Campaign
Al Jazeera reports the US is targeting ISIL in Nigeria, with Trump bizarrely linking it to a 'Christian genocide' in a different region. This isn't merely a geographical error; it's a playbook. Remember when the Bush administration conflated Saddam with 9/11 for the Iraq War? Or how the US has consistently leveraged 'counter-terrorism' to expand military presence across Africa under AFRICOM,
without actually curbing terror, but certainly securing strategic resources? The US military, facing a bloated budget and an insatiable appetite for intervention, rarely needs a truly pressing reason to drop bombs. The 'Christian genocide' narrative appears to be the latest convenient pretext for military action in a region rich in oil and largely outside direct Western control. One might wonder
if the efficacy of past interventions, like the two-decade 'War on Terror' that only saw terrorism proliferate, was considered.