<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div>I am no expert, but BH is very much a response to Nigeria's rich south ignoring the poor north: it could have turned into normal guerilla/rebellion, but now it took on religious angle since the north-south divide is also a religious divide. Rather than adding anti-western sentiments in the socialist mode, it settled on a religious mode (hence the name - to BH education is a weapon of cultural assimilation used by the south and the West). Maybe there is also Salafist foreign aid, I don't know. So a first issue that needs to be addressed is what the Nigerian government is doing with the oil money - it might be necessary to start squeezing them on corruption and the need to include the whole country. This won't stop BH directly, but handled well it might deprive it of the core driver, and make more people willing to resist. Most likely the only proper solution is for Nigeria to actually get its governance act together and construct a working police and military. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Or, maybe .... break the country up!</div><div><br></div><div>Drop the poor south. Set up a good border, slaughter those who cross it.</div><div><br></div><div>Good, old methods that work.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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