- New term alert: France is worried that Mali and the region is turning into “Afrighanistan.”
- If you didn’t see this on Wednesday, go back and read Adrienne LeBas’s piece here on Duck.
- Some evidence of Malian support for intervention?
- Mohammed Adow at Al Jazeera’s Africa blog also thinks so.
- Gregory Mann believes the intervention was necessary and is widely supported, but worries about the new dangers and dynamics it has created.
- Alex Thurston isn’t so sure.
- Conn Hallinan looks back to the link with NATO’s Libya intervention.
- Tobias Koeph and JonTemin ask the question — what next?
- Steve Walt — of course.
- The Guardian’s live updates on the related hostage crisis in Algeria.
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
You mention Walt’s post but not the comments attached to it. I just glanced briefly at both post and comments and the latter are probably more interesting, esp. the comments by the person who was in the Peace Corps in Mali from ’05-’07.