Quagmire, anyone?

Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and West Africa's economic powerhouse, erupted in turmoil on Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker in an airstrike on the rebel-held north.

France wiped out the nation's newly built-up airforce on the tarmac in retaliation, sparking a violent anti-French uprising of looting, burning and attacks by loyalist youths. The turmoil has claimed at least 27 lives and wounded more than 900, with no deaths reported among expatriates.

Hmmm. France retaliates? Why not search for the root causes of the violence. Obviously the local population is just trying to throw of the yoke of foreign oppression. I wonder when we'll see the demonstrations in Paris against this imperial aggression. "No Blood for Cocoa!"