{"id":125891,"date":"2022-05-18T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125891"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:00:43","slug":"just-in-case-you-missed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125891","title":{"rendered":"Just In Case You Missed It . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . we’re sending US troops back to Somalia<\/em><\/a>. Again.<\/p>\n

But we’re sending fewer this time than we had there prior to January 2021.<\/p>\n

The stated purpose is to combat al-Shabab – a nasty Somali terrorist group allied with al-Qaeda that recently has stepped up its attacks on Somali government targets, as well as other targets in the Horn of Africa (including US forces in Kenya). Apparently we’ll be both training allied troops as well as going after “key personnel” in al-Shabab. <\/p>\n

The redeployment may well be necessary to protect US national interests. But in that case, I have to wonder why it took nearly 16 months to figure out that pulling out of Somalia in January 2021 was a mistake. <\/p>\n

And if pulling out of Somalia was a mistake, then why wasn’t<\/u> pulling out of Afghanistan a mistake? Last time I checked, many of the terrorist groups there are similarly allied with al-Qaeda. Inquiring minds want to know, Joe.<\/p>\n

I also have to say that the phrases “d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again” and “I’ve got a bad feeling about this . . . .” come immediately to mind. <\/p>\n

Why? Because I remember what happened roughly 28 1\/2 years ago in Somalia<\/em><\/a> – when we sent a relatively small detachment of US forces there to go after “key leaders” in an armed Somalia group that was threatening Somalia’s stability.<\/p>\n

The memory isn’t a pleasant one. As it turned out, we weren’t ready to follow through after we got out nose bloodied. And I hope I’m wrong, but this new deployment looks at least in part like yet another attempt at more “nation building” nonsense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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