Nigeria: what to do? What to do?

The White House unleashed a hashtag offensive on Boko Haram demanding they release the Nigerian school girls. Talk about brinksmanship. The White House warned Boko Haram if they do not respond to our hashtags and release the girls, we will un-friend them on Facebook.

                                                                                                                                                   Argus Hamilton
 
America’s Moral Compass ; Does the U.S. have a responsibility to act in Nigeria?

 

... "Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. We don’t have such drones — yet. There is no button to press that would cleanly and safely rescue those girls and put the terrorists out of Nigeria’s misery. We can no more wish that drones will solve the problem of Boko Haram than expect Twitter hashtags to solve it. The only methods available to us involve all sorts of risks, to American lives, American interests, and — also important — to Nigerian lives and interests" ...

 

..."But some non-interventionists reject all of this, arguing that we have neither the right nor the moral standing to impose our ideas of right and wrong on others. This strikes me as an attempt to make a virtue out of having no compass at all."   Jonah Goldberg

 

Bring Back the Girls—Quietly; America has forgotten how to exercise power without swagger.    ... "At the same time, America has to stand, always, for what is right and decent in the world, or it will no longer be America. It needs to be able to do things only it can do at the moment, and do them bravely, successfully—and modestly.
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"The White House would have to dummy up too, which would be hard for them. Staffers always want to make a president look good, and Obama staffers seem to think their primary purpose is to aggrandize the president. But there would be no network special with a breathless Brian Williams giving us the tick-tock on how it all went down and how the president kept his cool when all about him others were losing theirs."

"Which gets me to my dream for the schoolgirls." ...