UNFORTUNATELY, ANOTHER DAY AND ANOTHER BOKO HARAM MASSACRE,
THIS TIME IT IS IN NIGERIA.
UNFORTUNATELY IT IS NOT GETTING
NEARLY AS MUCH COVERAGE AS OTHER ATTACKS HAVE GOTTEN THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD.
SO OBVIOUSLY AFTER PARIS A LOT OF DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES PLAYED THE FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM, AS WELL THEY
SHOULD HAVE.
IT WAS MOVING, WE SHOULD ALL BE IN SOLIDARITY WITH
PARIS AND FRANCE AFTER THE ATTACKS.
IN THIS CASE, 86 PEOPLE
KILLED IN BRUTAL FASHION, AND WE SHOULD SHOW JUST AS MUCH
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA AFTER THIS ATTACK.
A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED --
NOW BOKO HARAM, I HAVE EXPLAINED BEFORE, IS PROBABLY
THE WORST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, I THINK INCLUDING
ISIS.
THEY HAVE PLEDGED LOYALTY TO ISIS SIMPLY BECAUSE ISIS IS
GETTING MORE PRESS COVERAGE, BUT THE REALITY IS BOKO HARAM MIGHT
HAVE KILLED MORE PEOPLE, AND THE WORDS BOKO HARAM, AND THEIR
CREED, IS "WESTERN EDUCATION IS EVIL AND SINFUL."
I CAN'T THINK
OF A WORSE IDEA AND A WORSE CREED THAN THAT, BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL
IT IS NOT WESTERN EDUCATION, IT EDUCATION, PERIOD.
MATH IS NOT
AGAINST THE WEST OR EAST, AND IF YOU ARE AGAINST MATH OR SCIENCE
AND ANY KIND OF LEARNING, WHICH IS NOT SURPRISING GIVEN THE
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS THEY ARE, YOU ARE AGAINST ADVANCEMENT.
AND
GIVEN THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO ATTACK SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS AND
EVEN THE CHILDREN IS PARTICULARLY LOATHSOME.
THESE
ARE MUSLIM RADICALS.
I GET CALLED AN ISLAM APOLOGIST FROM TIME TO
TIME BY INSANE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH I THINK THAT ISLAM IS
COMPLETELY WRONG.
THESE RADICALS ARE MONSTROUS.
THE ONE THING I
AM ASKING YOU TO DO IS NOT TO CATEGORIZE THE PEOPLE THEY
MURDER IN THE SAME GROUP AS THEM.
PERHAPS A LITTLE TOO HARD
TO UNDERSTAND FOR SOME FOLKS.
I WILL GET BACK TO THAT IN A
SECOND.
LET ME TELL YOU MORE OF THIS GRUESOME ATTACK --
FOR EXAMPLE, I AM PRETTY SURE HE IS MUSLIM AND HE IS AGAINST
BOKO HARAM AND OUTRAGED BY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
THEY ATTACKED
FELLOW MUSLIMS, THEY ATTACKED CHRISTIANS, THEY ATTACK A LOT OF
DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HONESTLY, BOKO HARAM DOES.
THIS IS PART OF MY
FRUSTRATION.
YOU KNOW I DON'T
THINK BOMBING IS THE ANSWER, AND MORE MILITARY FORCE IS NOT
ALWAYS THE ANSWER.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I HAVE SAID TARGETED
FORCE CAN WORK.
I AM IN FAVOR OF SPECIAL FORCES.
I DON'T WANT TO
JUST DROP BOMBS FROM THE SKY AND WIND UP HITTING THE SAME KIDS
THESE GUYS ARE HITTING AND THEN GO OOPS, NOW THEIR FAMILIES HATE
US, AND NOW MORE PEOPLE HAVE JOINED THEM AND ARE FIGHTING
AGAINST US.
THAT IS COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.
ON THE OTHER HAND,
THESE GUYS ARE GOING INTO VILLAGES AND NOT RETREATING
UNTIL THEY ARE MET WITH GREATER FORCE ON THE GROUND.
DO I WANT
TO INVADE NIGERIA?
OF COURSE NOT, WE WANT TO HELP NIGERIA.
WE
CAN DO SIMPLISTIC THINGS LIKE JUST GO IN BOMB, GO WITH DRONES,
BUT THEY ARE OFTENTIMES COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
WE TEND TO GO
WITH THE SIMPLEST IDEAS LIKE INVADE THEM, TAKE THEM OVER, GROUND
TROOPS.
BUT CAN WE BRING IN SIGNIFICANT FORCES TO FIGHT
AGAINST THESE GUYS?
YES, BUT IT WOULD INVOLVE MORE RISK TO US.
BUT IF THESE GUYS AREN'T WORTH FIGHTING, WHO IS?
AND ISN'T IT
WEIRD THAT WE HEAR NONSTOP ISIS, ISIS, AS WELL WE SHOULD, THEY
ARE MONSTROUS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, BUT THAT YOU ALMOST NEVER
HEAR OF BOKO HARAM?
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN EVERY DEBATE,
ISIS, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, OUR MILITARY IS WEAK.
WHY AREN'T
WE FIGHTING AGAINST THESE RADICAL JIHADISTS?
HERE THEY
ARE, THEY BURNED THOSE KIDS ALIVE.
APPARENTLY NOT MUCH
INTEREST THERE, NOT THAT CLOSE TO OUR ALLIES.
THEY DON'T LOOK
AS MUCH LIKE US.
NOT AS MUCH STRATEGIC INTEREST IN THE AREA.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE ARE NO GROUPS THERE TO HELP THEM.
AGAIN, THE ANSWER ISN'T A SIMPLE PRESS THE BUTTON, BOMB AWAY.
BUT
BOY, IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT, IT TURNS OUT MAYBE SPECIAL FORCES
COULD BE A GREATLY HELPFUL.
THAT IS WHY I'VE BEEN ON THAT SIDE
FOR A LONG TIME.
AND THAT IS NOT THE ONLY ANSWER.
THE OTHER
ANSWER IS EDUCATION.
THEY ARE AGAINST EDUCATION?
WE ARE FOR
IT.
EVERY TIME THEY BOMB THE SCHOOL WE SHOULD BUILD 10 MORE,
AND WHEN PEOPLE IN NIGERIA AND NEARBY AREAS SEE THE AMERICAN
FLAG THEY SHOULD THINK, HELP IS ON THE WAY.
EDUCATION AND SCHOOL
AND OPPORTUNITY FOR MY KIDS IS ON THE WAY.
SO THAT IT IS CLEAR,
BOKO HARAM, THE BAD GUYS.
THE GUYS THEY TELL US ARE THE BAD
GUYS, WESTERN EDUCATION, AMERICANS, THE WEST, ETC.?
TURNS
OUT ALL THEY DO IS HELP US.
WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT IF THAT
WAS THE MESSAGE?
WOULD THAT HAVE AN EFFECT OVER THE LONG RUN?
I
THINK IT WOULD.
I'M NOT NAœVE ENOUGH TO THINK THAT OVERNIGHT
YOU SEND HELP IN ON TUESDAY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYONE IN
NIGERIA IS ON OUR SIDE, OR THE NEARBY AREAS, AND WE HAVE WON
OVER EVERY PERSON ON WEDNESDAY.
NO.
BUT THEY PLAY A LONG GAME,
THEY DO THEIR COUNTER EDUCATION, THEIR PROPAGANDA, AND TELL YOU
HOW TERRIBLE EDUCATION IS -- LET'S FIGHT ON THE SAME GROUNDS.
BECAUSE THEY THINK IT WORKS AND IT HAS WORKED FOR THEM.
WE COULD
DO A HELL OF A LOT MORE WITH OUR RESOURCES.
WE WILL BRING THOSE
PEOPLE HELP, EDUCATION.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TERRIBLE BOKO
HARAM IS --
I'M JUST ASKING FOR A LITTLE BIT OF PARITY HERE.
WE SHOULD BE
OUTRAGED BY WHAT HAPPENED IN PARIS AND SAN BERNARDINO, BUT WE
SHOULD ALSO BE OUTRAGED BY WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NIGERIA.
WE
SHOULD HAVE SMART SOLUTIONS TO ALL OF THOSE.