Last Chance to Stave Off an African Caliphate

Tomorrow, a country half-a-world away will hold an election that seems likely to have a profound impact globally.  Nigerians will go to the polls to choose which of two candidates will preside over the likely, coming implosion of their country.

Absent an urgent and effective diplomatic intervention by the United States, the real winners will be Sharia-supremacists – the Fulani militants, Boko Haram and ISIS – that have been ratcheting up murderous attacks on Christians and others who stand in the way of the new Caliphate they seek to establish in the heart of Africa.

The losers will be millions of refugees who will, predictably, seek safety elsewhere and the countries of Africa, Europe and even North America woefully unprepared to accommodate them.

Our vital interests and those of countless others require a U.S. Special Envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region now.