US military mission in Somalia could take seven years to complete

cnn ^ | 04/14/2019 | Ryan Browne,

[Redleg Duke]

If they want to clean out Somolia, let’s start with Minneapolis and Leesburg, VA!

[Does so]

Don’t forget Lewiston, Maine!

[Spruce]

Meanwhile back in Minneapolis....

[Candor7]

Send Congress-thing Omar , make her a special envoy to Somalia,and she will sort it out in a pinch ( simply by killing all non Muslims in the country, including US personnel.)

Problem solved.( Heavy Sarc.)

[EEGator]

"...calling the Islamist insurgency plaguing that country an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US."

Like an Islamic whore in Congress?

[Lurkinanloomin]

George H.W. Bush should have never intervened in 1992.
That’s how we ended up with enough Somalis that they could elect one of their own to OUR Congress.

[eartick]

Gotta feed the war machine.

Just three months with out an active conflict and half of DC would blow away.

[Psalm 73]

"George H.W. Bush should have never intervened in 1992."

And Bubba complicated things when he half-assed the military component (Black Hawk Down, anyone?) - let's wait on the UN to help us....

[rrrod]

Excellent!

[Doogle]

...???...just give them all Uber licenses

[Lurker]

The only thing we should be doing in Somalia is bombing the **** out of those savages until every single one of them has been turned into pink mist.

Trying to train them is a fools errand.

L

[W.]

Flamethrower tanks would speed up the process...

[Oldexpat]

Somalis here are supporting the terrorists with our tax dollars.

[mac_truck]

As well as advising on airstrikes and ground assaults, the Navy SEAL-led team's primary task is to train and build Somalia its own elite light infantry force.

The US spent six years in Iraq and over a decade in Afghanistan training and building local infantry forces...when is this exercise in futility going to end?

[Hartlyboy]

Just get out. Now

[mostly_lies]

Yeah!!! JUST WHAT WE NEED......

ANOTHER endless pit into which we pour money, lives of young men, and ruinous effort, all in the name of “fighting terrorism.”

YAY USA!!!!

[Vermont Lt]

My SIL spent the last year in Somalia. He confirmed it was, indeed, a shithole.

[Fiji Hill]

George H.W. Bush should have never intervened in 1992.

He should have heeded the warning of Smith Hempstone, a veteran Africa hand who had served under President Reagan as a diplomat in the area: "if you liked Lebanon, you'll love Somalia."

[GreatRoad]

I thought we voted to get out of these sh*thole countries. Training locals on US machinery always backfires when they use that training against us. Hello? anyone home?