From Eric: "Barely reported in the Western press: while France attacks its former colonies
Mali and Central African Republic (CAR), Obama has sent a combat-equipped US
military unit to Chad, supposedly to protect US citizens and property in
CAR--which makes little sense as an explanation: why not send those troops to
CAR? Perhaps because Obama already deployed a combat unit to CAR in October
2011, supposedly to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)? And one must
recall that the embattled president of CAR, Francois Bozize, came to power in a
western-backed coup in 2003 against the Libyan-backed regime of Ange-Félix
Patassé. Among Bozize's services to imperialism? After the US and its Haitian
comprador allies mounted a coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, the
US military kidnapped Aristide, flew him to CAR and imprisoned him on the
grounds of the presidential palace in Bangui."