{"id":52978,"date":"2014-07-03T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52978"},"modified":"2014-07-03T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:55:21","slug":"us-troops-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52978","title":{"rendered":"US troops in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"

TSO sends a link from Reuters<\/a> which reports that there are at least 120 US troops in Somalia according to “a U.S. defense official”;<\/p>\n

The deployments, consisting of up to 120 troops on the ground, go beyond the Pentagon’s January announcement that it had sent a handful of advisors in October. That was seen at the time as the first assignment of U.S. troops to Somalia since 1993 when two U.S. helicopters were shot down and 18 American troops killed in the “Black Hawk Down” disaster.<\/p>\n

The plans to further expand U.S. military assistance coincide with increasing efforts by the Somali government and African Union peacekeepers to counter a bloody seven-year insurgent campaign by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab to impose strict Islamic law inside Somalia.<\/p>\n

Those U.S. plans include greater military engagement and new funds for training and assistance for the Somali National Army (SNA), after years of working with the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, which has about 22,000 troops in the country from Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s no one more committed to fighting al Qaeda where ever they pop out their scraggly little skulls, but, ya know, I’m getting the idea that those fellas aren’t worried about the US. We’ve got troops in Central Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Our mission just ended in the Philippines<\/a> despite the fact that there are still terrorists operating there.<\/p>\n

When this president had an opportunity to kill terrorists in droves in Afghanistan, he punted. Now, he’s paying that price by stomping out brush fires. Unfortunately, the price he’s paying is in blood and treasure that isn’t his. The only way to defeat terrorism is to make it more painful for the terrorists. That doesn’t appear to be happening. I was told by the folks to be smarter than me that the war against terror was creating more terrorists, but it seems that half-assed “overseas contingency operations” are creating more terrorists at a higher rate than killing them was doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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