"If al Qaeda sets up shop in Mauritania (virtually certain) then the U.S. will have to address that hell hole."

Precisely my point.

I'd posted, "Instead of well meaning but perpetually ineffective aid to Africa that simply enriches the kleptocracy, the western nations need to promote regiem change or face other breeding nests of Islamic terrorists"

Others here choose to take the ostrich approach to terrorists' tactic of hiding in such failed states, instead thinking baseless pollyanna thoughts that this coup will somehow result in a democracy. I hope to be proven totally wrong on my expectations.