{"id":14433,"date":"2012-09-27T22:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14433"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:52:18","slug":"west-to-mali-hold-elections-first-then-well-invade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/09\/west-to-mali-hold-elections-first-then-well-invade\/","title":{"rendered":"West to Mali: Hold Elections First, Then We\u2019ll Invade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ml-map.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14434\" title=\"ml-map\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ml-map.gif?resize=257%2C274\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>US Discussing Unspecified Role in Future War<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Which comes first, the dubious election to select a government, or a foreign military invasion to prop that government up?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If you\u2019re talking Mali, the Western world is pretty clear the former has to come first, as they are openly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=20129\\28\\story_28-9-2012_pg4_7\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">conditioning the invasio<\/span>n <\/a>that Malian officials have been seeking on them holding an election first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How an election is even theoretically held in a nation where more than half of the territory is out of the regime\u2019s control is a tricky matter. Residents of Azawad, the northern half of the country which has been taken over by Ansar Dine, are expressing concern that holding an election without them, then having ECOWAS and whatever NATO nations that might get involved occupy Azawad to impose the southern government on them isn\u2019t a sign of \u201cunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">El <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201209270194.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">UN is debating<\/span><\/a><\/span> the ECOWAS plan for an invasion of Azawad, and the Obama Administration is <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-africa-command-chief-in-mauritania-to-discuss-military-intervention-1.190997\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">said to be in talks<\/span><\/a><\/span> with Mauritania on the possibility of insinuating itself into the war in some role, though exactly what form US involvement will take is still unclear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mali lost control of Azawad to Tuareg secessionists earlier this year, and the military staged a coup d\u2019etat in the wake of the defeat. Since then the junta has appointed an \u201cinterim\u201d civilian government, but the leader of the government, President Dioncounda Traore, is unpopular and has already been hospitalized once during his term after <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/05\/21\/malis-new-president-thrashed-by-protesters\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">protesters marched into his office<\/span><\/a><\/span> and beat him unconscious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/27\/west-to-mali-hold-elections-first-then-well-invade\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Discussing Unspecified Role in Future War by Jason Ditz Which comes first, the dubious election to select a government, or a foreign military invasion..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,84,189,97,119],"tags":[228,197,226,244],"class_list":["post-14433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-statements","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-war","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-mali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ml-map_14433_2d02a.gif?fit=257%2C274&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}