US Relations w/Nigeria Hit New Low Under Obama

The toxic relationship between Obama and Israel isn’t an outlier. Under Obama, the US relationship with any non-Muslim country fighting Muslim terrorists is in the toilet. If only all of Nigeria converted to Islam, suddenly relations with Obama would improve


The New York Times, the official foreign policy anonymous leak outlet of Obama, tries to spin it as much as it can, but the bottom line is that…


1. Obama’s people fought against naming Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Org for as long as they could.


2. They continue to attack Nigeria for fighting terrorism instead of appeasing Muslims harder


3. Obama only sent aid when the kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram grabbed headlines. And the aid was meaningless.

Soon after the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 teenage girls in Nigeria in April, the United States sent surveillance drones and about 30 intelligence and security experts to help the Nigerian military try to rescue them. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the top general for American missions in Africa, rushed from his headquarters here to help the commanders in the crisis.

Seven months later, the drone flights have dwindled, many of the advisers have gone home and not one of the kidnapped girls has been found. Many are believed to have been married off to Boko Haram fighters, who in the past six months have seized hundreds more civilians, including children, planted bombs in Nigerian cities and captured entire towns.

Obama’s typical MO is react to the headlines with a PR stunt that doesn’t address the issue and back out as quickly as possible. Obama had no interest in finding those girls. Why would he? His entire foreign policy is pandering to Muslims at the expense of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and anyone else he can screw over.

In Washington, that fleeting moment of cooperation between Nigeria and the United States in May has now devolved into finger-pointing and stoked the distrust between the two countries’ militaries.

It’s not distrust between the two militaries. It’s distrust between Obama and the Nigerian government. The next paragraph makes it clear that it’s not about the military.

Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States has accused the Obama administration of failing to support the fight against Boko Haram, prompting the State Department to fire back with condemnations of the Nigerian military’s dismal human rights record.

Nigeria has its problems, but in human rights it’s head and shoulders above Obama’s Muslim allies. The ones the New York Times never has anything bad to say about.

“Tensions in the U.S.-Nigeria relationship are probably at their highest level in the past decade,” Johnnie Carson, the State Department’s former top diplomat for Africa, said in an interview.

That would be the same Carson who fought tooth and nail against naming Boko Haram as a Foreign Terror Org.

“Ounce for ounce, Boko Haram is equal to if not better than the Nigerian military,” said one American official here, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational reports.

Now why would that be?

In addition, United States security assistance to Nigeria has been sharply limited by American legal prohibitions against close dealings with foreign militaries that have engaged in human rights abuses.

Obama isn’t limited by laws. Obama doesn’t believe in laws.
The US has armed countries like Pakistan, which murders Christians as a semi-professional sport, Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is illegal, and Turkey, which is a state sponsor of terror.
Compared to any of these places, Nigeria is a beacon of human rights and tolerance.

Last summer, the United States blocked the sale of American-made Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria from Israel, amid concerns in Washington about Nigeria’s ability to use and maintain that type of helicopter in its effort against Boko Haram, and continuing worries about Nigeria’s protection of civilians when conducting military operations.

Wasn’t that nice of Obama?
He barred Nigeria from buying choppers from Israel because he worried that they wouldn’t be able to maintain them. Isn’t he just the best? Sure banning a country from buying choppers to use against a Muslim terrorist group might sound bad, but the New York Times always finds the best possible angle for its client in the White House.

Those restrictions have drawn sharp criticism from Nigerian officials. In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in November, Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, said his government was dissatisfied with the “scope, nature and content” of American support in the fight against Boko Haram. He also disputed allegations of human rights violations committed by Nigerian soldiers.

“We find it difficult to understand how and why in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly,” he said.

Sophisticated technology has to be used. How many American soldiers died in Afghanistan because Obama wouldn’t let them defend themselves. And the Taliban have made a comeback under Obama.

Testifying before House and Senate hearings, administration officials in May offered an unusually candid criticism of the Nigerian military. “We’re now looking at a military force that’s, quite frankly, becoming afraid to even engage,” said Alice Friend, the Pentagon’s principal director for African affairs at the time.

What are Alice’s military qualifications?
None. She was picked up by Obama Inc. after working as an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. The Center is a think-tank founded by the head of the Center for American Progress, the left-wing group where Obama gets most of his bad ideas from.


The military, as usual, has nothing to say about it. It’s being used as a pawn in Obama’s pro-terrorist foreign policy. And that includes empowering Boko Haram.
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