I am not knocking the French for agreeing to send troops to help with the Mali Conflict, I just want to examine the reason why France has decided to become involved.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the countries of Africa, Mali is a small land-locked country in Western Africa, also known as the Ivory Coast. Mali was also a colony of France's for a very long time.
So I can't help but think the reason why France has agreed to aid the country is France's way of sating, "Sorry our Imperialistic attitudes during the entire 20th century was really just de facto slavery. Our bad". Only they would be saying this in French, so it would sound prettier at least.
I know that the Mali conflict is complicated, and my explanation as to why a country that is known for NOT supporting conflicts would agree to send troops over is rather simplistic, but I think I make a valid case. The national language of Mali, like many countries in the Ivory Coast is still French. Why? Because of 20th century Imperialism.
Just remember kids, every bad thing that is happening ion the world today, can pretty much be blamed on Imperialism.
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