The date of August 15 obviously gives reason for comparison. A year after the Americans left Afghanistan, France, in turn, is withdrawing from its main theater of operations against the jihadist octopus in northeastern Mali. In this way, the contrast is clear, clearly in favor of the French army. an orderly, methodical and dignified retreat, far from the chaos and stampede exhibited by the world’s first army in Kabul last year. France will be insane at both ends of its Sahelian adventure. in a lightning intervention in January 2013 to prevent Islamist convoys from taking Bamako, and when he left without fanfare on Monday.
The balancing act between the two is essentially almost as brutal for a former colonial power acting as a savior in Africa as it is for an American occupier in Iraq and Afghanistan. France scored punctually, temporarily securing various parts of the vast Mali…
Source: Le Figaro
