This is nonsense.
The former ambassador to Liberia was just now on Special Edition with Brit Hume, and he said a small force could do the job.
The Liberians WANT the Americans in; there's just a small group in the government that are propping up Charles Taylor.
Someone (or many) need to tell him to go to Nigeria, which has signaled it would take him.
In fact, the amabassador thinks just the talk of going in may do the trick.
People are being slaughtered, and, in this case, a small expenditure of men and material can resolve a horrible situtation.
We're going to go.
The world is watching this, and it's the ones who would do us harm to see if we can spread only so far. If even the possibility of US troops being requested hits the gossip column of the globe, not going causes our enemies to start planning. They make calculations based on our capacity to wage war. Our enemies need to know for their own good that we have a limitless capacity to go to war at any place at any time and in any numbers.
That'll change quickly enough.
Seeing as how we have had such a great success rate in other instances of tribal warfare in Africa, I don't see how it's nonsense to discern that Liberia could be a great opportunity to give the U.S. a bloody nose. "The former ambassador to Liberia was just now on Special Edition with Brit Hume, and he said a small force could do the job."
What military training does he have?
"The Liberians WANT the Americans in; there's just a small group in the government that are propping up Charles Taylor."
That's what was said about Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Now we have Shia protests and daily ambushes on American troops. How much is enough? Al Qaeda is in Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Morocco, etc, why aren't we invading these countries too? Why don't we just launch military operations everywhere? Our economy can sure take it.