A very modest yet commendable proposal.  I hope that the National Assembly
will heed this call for a rational foreign policy forged in open public
debate rather than surrendering the Gambian sovereignty to Yaya's
diplomatism and personality cult that serves nothing but Jola ethno-centric
nationalism.  Diplomacy is nothing but a tool of statecraft that serves to
MANAGE conflict.  It is NEVER a solution to peace.  The Gambia Government's
restless efforts to bring "peace" in the Sub-region is nothing but quixotic;
Yaya lacks any moral will to preach peace anywhere, whilst slaughtering his
own innocent unarmed civil population- charity begins at home.
On the Cassamance issue, I will opine that the only plausible resolve to the
Jola insurgency is for the Senegalese Government to wage a coherent and
robust counter-revolutionary war against the guerrillas, and force them to
the negotiating table with a diktat for peace favourable to the integrity of
the Senegalese Republic.  Guerrillas never compromise their political
objectives, for them war is a zero-sum game and a continuation of political
struggle by other means- Mao, the grand guru of guerrilla warfare said that
power comes through the barrel of a gun- he has very little faith in
diplomatic maneuvering so does the MFDC.
As long as there is a Jola ethno-centric brutalitarian demagogue running the
Gambia Government, the Senegalese have a choice of a two-pronged strategy:
The first I already highlighted above, and this should be coupled with a
moral principle of promoting and instigating the "SOPI" philosophy in the
Gambia so as to neutralise the Kanilai factor.



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