As if menacing its own people is not enough, Guinea’s military junta is now getting chesty with the international community at large. The military leaders have vowed to defeat any “preventive deployment” of troops that might come as the result of internatonal intervention in the country’s affairs.
“We will consider such deployment as a declaration of war against the Guinean people and we are prepared to fight back and beat such an aggression,” Colonel Moussa Keita, a senior junta officer and the Permanent Secretary of the ruling National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), has told reporters in Conakry.
I can think of all sorts of reasons why military intervention in Guinea seems like a pretty bad idea (at least for the time being — never say never and all that). But bluster from or fear of the Guinean military are really not among them.
