Western intervention will turn Nigeria into an African Afghanistan

Click here to access article by Lindsey German from The Guardian.

...we should be wary of the narrative now emerging. This follows a wearily familiar pattern, one we have already seen in south Asia and the Middle East, but that is increasingly being applied to Africa as well.

It is the refrain that something must be done and that "we" – the enlightened west – must be the people to do it. 

It's called "humanitarian intervention", an Orwellian label for 21st century imperialism. Only the incorrigibly gullible think that Empire agents give a damn about African girls.