re: Have you lost any sleep over the kidnapped Nigerian girls?

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Why? Kidnappings happen every day in Nigeria.

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Nigeria isn't the Sudan or the Congo and 300 teenage girls aren't kidnapped from dormitories to be sold into sex slavery everyday.

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The only reason this is news is because the white house needed a feel good story to push to show how strong Obama is on foreign affairs. Hell, Nigeria (and teh whole African Union) don't want us to help.

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What?

The Nigerians don't want our help mainly because Obama chided Goodluck Jonathan (best President name ever) over the Nigerian military's own history of human rights abuses. They have seemed willing to take the British and French help. Probably because Africans don't have a troubled history with those two powers unlike America.

Boko Haram are fricking evil. They kidnapped these girls for ransom, and to make a point about education. Women from their perspective should be in the home making babies, not getting an evil western education. Hell that's what their name means, Western Education is Evil. They are a terrorist organization attempting to create an radical Islamist nation in the north of what is otherwise one of the more hopeful stories in Africa. It's Africa though, so frick em?

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This whole thing is a manufactured story to drum up the polls and distract from Obamacare, Kerry's farting around in the middle east, the recent total failure of the trade deals with east Asia, the recent total failure of the trade deals with Eastern Europe, the dismal jobs and growth numbers, Benghazi, etc.

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It's the subject of international outrage that have even Al-Qaeda groups condemning their actions. I'm glad the majority of people in this world aren't so cynical as to see a story of atrocities and not think it's manufactured outrage to distract from fricking Benghazi!?

300 teenage girls sold into slavery after being kidnapped from their dorms, and you think the outrage is just being drummed up for political cover for Obama!?

For frick's sake...