(cont'd)
Boko Haram has enslaved or injured children and routinely killed and maimed thousands, all in a "brutal five-year uprising to create a strict Islamic state in northeast Nigeria." Yesterday I asked, how could they think that doing this kind of evil could motivate citizens to approve or accept their leadership in government?
Looks like I was thinking of government that exists at the "consent of the governed." (And so it does for us in America, African Fred Swaniker says, because our laws and institutions stop this sort of evil from succeeding.)
But terrorists have no interest in the legitimate foundation of government. They seem very confident that they can force government on the governed if they create enough overwhelming fear.
How long can Nigerians dare to send their helpless kids to school, when schools are such a target?
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