[af_vet_rr]

It is in our interest that central Africa not be destabilized any more than it is. What that means is not so clear.

Keeping both the crazies like the LRA and radical Islam out of power would be one clear goal. That is in our national interest. The problem is our government is loathe to identify the spread of Islam as a threat to our national security. It'd be one thing if Islam spread peacefully and people made the decision on their own, but it doesn't work that way in real life.

This idea of putting a small number of advisers in there just feels like a mini-Vietnam all over again. Put in a small group of advisers, something happens to them, so we bring in more troops to support and protect them and help train more locals, and pretty soon we are right back in 1963-1964.

Because of the lack of clarity about our overall mission and because the argument hasn't been made by Obama in regards to our national security, we should not be involved.

[arrogantsob]

There is a difference in making alliances with some Moslems against other Moslems as Bush had to do in Iraq and Afghanistan; providing assistance to Islamic drug gangs such as the KLA to take over Kosovo; and fighting this group.

Since this cult prefers to attack women, children and the helpless the troops themselves are not in great danger and assisting in the eradication of such evil might be enlightening. While such interventions must be carefully done this has nothing to do with Vietnam and there is little chance of such an involvement.

The problem is The Disaster is clueless and can only be counted on to be relfexively anti-American and incompetent to accomplish Good.