Humanitarian missions and hidden agendas

EDWARD HORGAN (Letters, December 10) is probably right when he suggests the proposed EU “humanitarian mission” to Chad is a cover to project and protect European influence and unfair trade, in Chad’s case to project France’s influence in particular.

He points out that there is an “elephant in the room” — the genocide in Darfur where he implies the UN should be, while the EU should not be in Africa at all.

Of course, “humanitarian” reasons for getting a military force into a country have been used by the west for a long time. Even now, one of these frauds is being played out in Kosovo.