To: 2banana
We have military and ex military people here. So will you tell me why we even bother to send troops to Niger? Drop bombs on ISIS there. Not like we could “bomb it back to the stone age” they are still there. It won’t matter.
8 posted on
10/24/2017 9:58:49 AM PDT by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Morgana
You send SF troops there to train the locals to better hunt down and kill ISIS.
It is war with “a small footprint.”
11 posted on
10/24/2017 10:08:39 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Morgana
So will you tell me why we even bother to send troops to Niger?
Ever hear of Eisenhower's warning to beware the military/industrial complex? This is a prime example.
Troops are in Africa for the same reason we sent them to Vietnam - to stop "undesireables" (i.e. communists) - only this time it's ISIS terrorists.
It's all BS.
14 posted on
10/24/2017 10:10:00 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Morgana
Affirmative action
To show we dont just send troops to white and tan countries
33 posted on
10/24/2017 10:54:48 AM PDT by
silverleaf
(A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
To: Morgana
Morgana wrote:
We have military and ex military people here. So will you tell me why we even bother to send troops to Niger? Drop bombs on ISIS there. Not like we could “bomb it back to the stone age” they are still there. It won’t matter.
One report I read was that Obama would not send troops to Nigeria, and instead sent them to Niger, to help train their military to fight against Boko Haram (in Nigeria).
37 posted on
10/24/2017 11:02:47 AM PDT by
ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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