"f the story ends well, there are clear benefits — not just for the missing girls and their families, but for the administration. But if the saga ends in tragedy, Obama could have attracted more attention to yet another instance in which her husband’s administration has spoken out against human rights violations but failed to stop them.
“If public outrage galvanizes the United States or Nigeria to respond effectively to the kidnapping, great. It’s worthwhile,” Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, said. “But my fear is that this outrage is going to encourage [Boko Haram] to kidnap more women” since the incidenthas shown the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, a way to get western attention and to undermine the Nigerian government based in Abuja.
Obama is fiercely focused, deliberate and intentional when it comes to choosing the causes she embraces, the events she attends and the areas on which she speaks out. The first lady’s office declined to comment on her involvement. But people close to Obama say the decision was driven by both policy considerations and emotional ones, since the story involved girls about the same age as her two daughters suffering in captivity and facing slavery or death.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/michelle-obama-bringbackourgirls-106645.html?hp=t1
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