Then you would be telling them wrong information.
These troops are armed Green Berets on a training mission. They do however have the freedom to wipe out anyone crazy enough to shoot at them.

is the best idea but your false equivalence here is ridiculous.

“The President is Not Going to Africa to Kill Christians” says the RedState headline.

But can RedState prove the President knew the LRA is not Christian?

My intel was that upon inauguration he wanted to bomb the White House, until informed that was just its name.

A landlocked country in Africa with few natural resources? What could possibly be less relevant to American interests?

I’m with Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater on that.

It is in our national interest to build goodwill and establish allies in as many countries and regions of the world as possible. One never knows what America’s strategic needs might be 10, 30, or 50 years down the road. Certainly 15 years ago no one would have anticipated that America would soon need to establish air bases and logistical networks across Central Asia. Then 9/11 happened.

This current deployment serves the above purpose at relatively little cost, and is in line with US foreign policy stretching back for several administrations. Sending advisors to work with the military and security forces of these nations means that rapport will be established, respect will be earned, and relationships formed, not just with the current political and military leadership of these nations, but also with the junior officers working in the field with our people. This younger generation will most likely be comprised of the up-and-comers in their military (who else would receive the honor and responsibility of representing their nation’s military in the field to the famed US Green Berets), and the (hopefully positive) experience of working and training alongside US service members to secure their nation against a barbaric foe will leave a lasting impression on them. Twenty years from now, when these junior officers are running the general staffs and the defense ministries of their nations, and we come to them with a request for air space rights in support of a more-pressing strategic need, they will remember their friends the Americans who helped them in their time of need, and be more inclined return the favor.

This is, by the way, the same reason we invite thousands of officers from around the world to come train at various DOD schools alongside our officers: it is one of the most effective ways we have at building long-term relationships with these nation’s militaries. We may or may not ever have need to call upon them, but when we do, they pay off in spades.

I recommend Robert Kaplan’s book “American Grunts” for a more in-depth treatment on the kinds of operations like this that the US military conducts around the world, mostly out of the public eye, but always in support of our long-term national security interests.

We are providing advisory assistance to those who are doing it.

I’m with Reagan. Americans are the force to do this.

Looks like I lost…

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to intervene in the all the fighting that took place beforehand? Hundreds, if not thousands were killed. Tens of thousands became homeless refugees. Certainly some lives will be saved now, but a lot more bloodshed and hardship could have been avoided if he had acted during the wider conflict. Then again, that would have called for way more than a hundred “Advisers”. Sounds like Obama is playing “small ball” to me.

“failed states create an environment that Al Qaeda thrives in.”

Saudi Arabia is far from a failed state, and Al Qaeda thrived there for some time.

North Korea is by any definition a failed state, yet Al Qaeda is not thriving there.

Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are all failed states to varying degrees, and all of Latin America has a history of hosting failed states.

Failed states are failed states; nothing more. They are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for an environment wherein Al Qaeda thrives. (I’d say that some level of Muslim population would be a more significant value in that regard.) Moreover, there is very little evidence that we are capable of creating stable states without a prior history of stability.

1. Because that particular region represents a potential safe haven and transit point for Al Qaeda to link their operational areas on the east coast of Africa with their operational areas in the Sahara and Pan Sahel.

2. Because we can. Many of the other situations in Africa were unsolvable, or solvable only at a much greater cost than we were willing to pay in resources and lives. In this situation, we can take effective action with minimal risk, and zero complaints from our our allies or anyone else.

And Soros has oil interests in Uganda… per the WND article.

Big Government has two stories of emails from the occupy group they infiltrated. Big huge dem party connections.

Why is Obama doing this now? Mass murder and genocide has been going on in Africa prior to this point and nothing was done by him. Why the urgency now?

It is very suspect and there are almost certiainly some ulterior motives here.

Psst. Ask the Democrats for a new set of talking points. The old Howard Dean anti-Bush ones are obsolete.

There is nothing in this situation to suggest escalation is a possible outcome. For every example you give of advisors escalating into large combat deployments, I can give 5 examples where it did not. For starters: El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, and the Phillippines.

The reality is that idiots exist in every country. You can reliably count on 10%-20% of people to believe even the most preposterious theories. How else to explain 911 truthers? The difference is that in other cultures they sit around the village and swap crazy stories while they tend the goats, while in America they get polled monthly and write letters to the editor weekly. The internet magnifies their presence and feeds them to some extent, but they have always been around and always will be, regardless of how great our schools become.

Every single conflict since the Korean war has either ended badly for us or worse yet, has never ended. Nothing good can come of this, and as you point out, we are broke.

Not only just broke, but our armed forces are spread very very thin,

Vietnam was the right war, and we won it. It’s unfortunately President Johnson, as rightly pointed out by Senator Goldwater, was too timid to win it as quickly as he should have, but it was a war and we needed to fight it.

what exactly do you think SF A and B Teams spend their time doing? Drinking beer and chasing poon in Fayetteville, NC?

This is a training mission. We’ve done those in sub-Saharan Africa for decades. We have a combatant command, AFRICOM (http://www.africom.mil/), focused on the region and a SF Group (3d Group) with a sub-Saharan Africa focus.

…and it has everything to do with how he invokes American resources.

His choices are problematic, inconsistent, and self-destructive.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s1067/show

S.1067 – Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009

A bill to support stabilization and lasting peace in northern Uganda and areas affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army through development of a regional strategy to support multilateral efforts to successfully protect civilians and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army and to authorize funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, reconciliation, and transitional justice, and for other purposes.

“has” China has the manpower and the money to eradicate this menace.

They use their military to do a lot of work that various law enforcement agencies do internally in the US. That’s part of why tanks were involved in putting down the Chinese Democracy Movement in Tiennamen Square.