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Creating the problems in north africa. >> i think people may not know this. up until 2007 there was no distinct central africa command in terms of the way the pentagon cleaved the world. in 2007 there was africa command and it currently is stationed in europe, not actually in africa. there have been a variety of initiatives to train the soldiers of different african regimes, counterterrorism training, other kinds of training and in fact the soldiers of mali. mali was one of the star pupils in the -- >> and they're the same people now we're fighting. >> right. so i want to turn to mali in a sec...

We've seen all over africa from the u.s. africa command. 50,000 libyans have been killed out of this intervention. the whole region of north africa has been destabilized. there are 1700 militias running around libya today. the u.s. ambassador has been killed. the united nations is calling for a full review. what the united states need is to have a review of its whole africa command and to withdraw its military forces. there's no need for the united states to be engaged with africa through the military. africa needs dentists, students, they need engineers, they need teachers, they need doctors,...

Because that's the place where the heat is now on because we have an explicit western intervention, 2300 french troops. do you think the state department is -- what is their perspective on the french intervention in mali and what they are doing there. is this worrying the obama administration? is there support for this? >> well, obviously the united states is providing refueling facilities for the french warplanes so, yes, the united states is playing a role already. i think there are no comfortable choices and that's one of the realities across the region today, whether it's in mali or syria,...

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