History repeats itself again and again and again, when will we ever learn?
President Obama has done it again. He waited for the week-end to let us know he has sent US soldiers to Africa. To Uganda. What? That's right, Uganda. With Libya he hesitated and hesitated and finally kicked the can to NATO and promised there would be no American GI boots on the ground in Libya. (And, yes, we're STILL involved in that little mess!) So, for Uganda's horrible problems, did he call on the United Nations? Did he ask NATO to get involved? No. All he contributed was billions of our dollars to the Libya fray. But, here he is, ordering boots on the ground in Uganda. I guess the situation there "suddenly" become horrible enough to justify putting our young soldiers in harm's way. In Africa. Where is the threat to the USA in Uganda? What terrorist has he ordered the SEALs to "take out" there?
Well, friends, it is just more smoke and mirrors from this shuffle-handed incompetent we elected. He obviously never heard of Idi Amin and all the horror he created in Uganda years ago. There is nothing new there, the situation there has been awful for years. The names change but Uganda's problems remain the same. This is just another Obama campaign trick to muddy the waters of his failed presidency. He says we are only sending a hundred troops and they are not to engage in combat unless it is in self defense. How stupid is that? They're being dropped into a another country's war zone. Such danger automatically demands self defense. Did Obama ever read a history book at Harvard about Viet Nam? That fiasco started out with "just a few advisers" and in a few short years and 58,000 recklessly sacrificed American lives later, we lost the "non-war" in Viet Nam and pulled out. No honor in that. And far too many precious American lives lost, and for what?
Yet, here we under Obama's "leadership" setting out in the same misguided footsteps to disaster.
Check out this October 14, 2011 item from abcnews.go.com:
Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda . . .
ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Luis Martinez report:
"Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.
The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.
The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that 'deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.' He said that 'although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.'”
Today, the United States military is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 369,000 of its 1,580,255 active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories. Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the "War on Terror". Many of the remainder are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to counter the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II. U.S. personnel are seeing active combat in several countries, most notably Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya where the death toll has reached about 12000 more young Americans. Others are deployed as part of several "peacekeeping" missions. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments
I don't know what Obama is doing. Does he? Is he just stupid or is he following some secret agenda that neither Congress nor the taxpaying citizens of the USA know nothing about. It seems to me that every policy, every regulation, ever executive order coming out of this White House seems bent on destroying the United States of America. Our military is already spread too thin. We have already spent too much money on countries that have NO affection for our country (only our $$$'s) and we have certainly already paid too high a price in amazing young citizens who have lost limb and life on foreign soil. We have already lost too much and paid a price far too high for other country's benefit. It's time to bring our soldiers home.
It is time to get out of the Mid-East; take a lesson from Russia and get out of Afghanistan altogether; and leave Iraq in a position to defend their own new-found Democracy. Let's bring our awesome young troops home, protect our own borders. and let NATO and the United Nations do their jobs, in fact I agree with the late, great Jesse Helms who often said, "Get the UN out of the U.S. and get the U.S. out of the UN". No more "boots on the ground" risking life and limb in foreign countries whose citizens hate the U.S. anyway, and probably always will.
Let's bring them home,
there is nothing to win.
