I guess I will take this opportunity to update my reraders on what is happening in the world (probably NO one cares a crap…but what the Hell….I do and that is what matters the most)……..

With all the manure being spread in DC and by the MSM….lots of news has been missed….I mean the rest of the world does not give two shakes about the ACA website or for that matter whatever antic the Congress has up its sleeve for the next week or two……but while Americans were busy condemning and consoling each other over the news of the day……much has been going on that seems to always take a back seat to the crap of the day……..

For instance, France………..for years it had this seemingly isolationist attitude to foreign policy……then a dude named Hollande burst onto the scene….a socialist ta boot……but all the timidness of the past has been broken…recently the West African country of Mali had a small insignificant civil war…the French were quick to come to the aid of their former colony by sending in French troops in support of the government….and NO one noticed.

There is an African country that use to be called Central African Empire, but today it is called the Central African republic…..anyway this was a former French colony….and today it is embroiled in a insignificant civil war that has been brewing for a couple of years…….why do I point to this situation?

(AP) – France will send 1,000 troops to the Central African Republic to keep growing chaos at bay, the defense minister says, announcing his country’s second military foray into a troubled former colony this year. The announcement came a day after a top UN official warned of mass atrocities and possible civil war in one of the world’s poorest countries, which has been in turmoil since rebel groups joined forces in March and overthrew the president. The rebels have been accused by rights groups of committing scores of atrocities including killings, rapes, and conscription of child soldiers.

“It’s in collapse and we cannot have a country fall apart like that. There is the violence, massacres, and humanitarian chaos that follow a collapse,” the minister said. “It will be a short mission to allow calm and stability to return.” He rejected comparisons to the operation against al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali, where France still has 2,800 troops. “In Mali there was an attack of jihadists, terrorists who wanted to transform Mali into a terrorist state. This is a collapse of a country with a potential for religious clashes,” he said. France will accompany an African force of troops from neighboring countries in a mission expected to last about six months.

Once again France is trying to shake the timidness in foreign policy from the past…….it seems that the government in Paris is trying to assert itself heavily into the internal affairs of other countries…..and the involvement does not stop there……

It hasn’t been all that long since the last of US troops left Iraq and already another nation, France, is showing some designs on their own presence in Baghdad.

French Ambassador Denys Gauer raised the issue today in a speech, suggesting his nation was prepared to provide “equipment, training and intelligence” to Iraq’s military in quelling the growing sectarian unrest in their nation. Gauer went on to add that this “of course” included sales of weapons to the Maliki government.

“This is an additional area in which we are totally open to cooperate with the Iraqi authorities, and to meet their needs.” Details of the offer were unclear, though training operations could well involve a French military presence.

It’s quite a shift from 2003, when French officials opposed the invasion of Iraq. Yet the Hollande government is far afield of the Chirac government, and has shown itself eager to engage in military entanglements the world over. Involvement in Iraq would be in keeping with their recent, aggressive foreign policy.