While the western world media is focussing its attention on the battles taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq, Africa is being eaten up by our old enemies. Islam is forcing its way down from North East Africa towards the equator, while China is moving in from the East, South of the Equator.
In my last paper, Why were not winning the war against terror part 2, I ended by mentioning a number of African states Congo, Darfur (Sudan), Ethiopia, Eretria, Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda and the rest
All of these African countries have been involved in terrorist wars in the recent past and some are still ongoing. Theyre not high profile in western media, because there are few western soldiers involved in these wars. Yet the civilian casualties are far greater in these African wars than in the middle-eastern wars.
I hope my two previous papers on the war against terror made the case for fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about these African wars against terror? Those of us with long memories shudder at being reminded of Black Hawk Down during the USAs disastrous venture into Mogadishu in Somalia, East Africa in 1993; Somalia is now riddled with Al...