[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.

[af_vet_rr]

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.

My concern is that mission creep will occur - at some point, our "advisers" will take a more active role or be seen as a thread, and the LRA will act against them. Like you said, cults/groups like the LRA rely on powerless people, and if our advisers help some of those powerless people to resist the LRA, the LRA will be forced to act. Plus the head of the LRA is a religious nut, he's got some nuts following him, all he needs is one "vision" to tell him to wipe out the Americans.

What happens then? Do we cut our losses or do we commit more troops? We'll commit more troops of course, not many Presidents would do otherwise.