[PowderMonkey]

"American spy planes and surveillance drones are in the meantime trying to get a sense of the chaos on the ground."

Mission. Creep. Somebody will have to take ground. And hold ground. It won't be the French. The Nigerians are the only alternative besides us, but after a few months of Nigerian occupation, the jihadists will start looking really, really good.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Mission. Creep.]

At some point an increasing number of U.S. personnel will draw foreign Jihadists into the fracas.