http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677254-pushing-back-slave-grabbing-rebels-only-start-after-boko-haram

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope." Stephen Hawking.

Opinions may vary, but I'd like to think this article as fair, not political but tackling the issue at hand. It is clear that through the course of time, progress has/is been made by the military at eliminating this insurgency as seen in reclaiming lost territories, maybe not at the required speed; but you can pick out areas where improvement can be made, and this problem can be handled more efficiently and effectively. Like every trying situation, there's always light at the end of the tunnel. I hope peace would be restored to all the corners of this once great nation, though an assiduous task, it isn't impossible. More grease to the elbows of those involved in the solution of this.