Chris Coons actually said...

Mali is a country in crisis, and when one looks at the human development index, Mali is a country that ranks in the bottom dozen.

I urge the United States to press for a strong human rights component within this military intervention.

The proximate cause of the coup in many ways was a series of military defeats, and the capacity of the Malian Armed Forces is a critical fir...

There are difficult choices for the government there involved between guns versus better types of decisions.