This is John Batchster, conversation with colleague Caleb Weiss. He's in Africa for the Bridgeway

Foundation and the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, commenting on Nigeria and the violence against

the Christian community of Nigeria by various bad actors. The herders are mentioned in one instance

and jihadists and other. Should the U.S.

get involved in these matters? Caleb has an informed opinion, as well as his opinion, his observations

of the former Ikawa states Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali, now under the threat, the constant threat,

the imminent threat, the active threat of jihadists across the landscape, both al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Here's Caleb on getting involved in a state as rich and powerful and yet ineffective as Nigeria.

Much more of this later this week.

100% this happens in other African states.

Various of them also do a very terrible job of protecting their citizens.

I don't think the U.S. should get involved at all with communal conflicts or land-based conflicts,

such as the farmer-herder violence. There's a case to be made against the jihadists, but the U.S. should get involved at all with communal conflicts or land-based conflicts, such as the

farmer-hurt or violence. There's a case to be made against the jihadists, but the U.S. has

already been involved against Boko Haram and Iswap to women's degrees for several years,

including sharing intelligence and whatnot. I'm not sure airstrikes are really going to do much

against them when Nigeria has failed to do anything about them since 2009, and they've invested thousands of troops into the fight.