African wars are a particular brand of nasty. Let the UN deal with it. No point in sending American troops to take the blame.
Agree. We send in Rangers (war crimes arrest warrant) to nab al-Bashir, but do it half-a$$ed—so as to not anger the United Nations—then wind up having to threaten UN `coat-holders’ to send in armor (that we gave them) to extricate our troops, all the while being shot-up by locals we were sent to help. Sounds way too familiar.
Anyway, we got those old wars on drugs, poverty, AIDS, and a real, ongoing social, economic and political problem with a brimming population of “undocumented immigrants”, a prickly Iran/Israel nuclear dilemma.
Not to mention Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, etc. and so forth and so on. Oh, and we’re almost broke . . . .
Other than those things, if we’re going to `screw the pooch’ in broad daylight and in front of the minister and his family, this is plan is worth considering.