I tend to believe most of these missions here and there are planned way in advance and of course changes in the world affect time tables ect. I have a close relative, gets sent to Afghanistan every summer for 3-4-5 months. He was lucky enough to be home this hunting season and he came up, killed a moose. Cool to see relative get his first moose, first half hour I took him hunting, lucky bugger actually. So we were trying to plan a hunt nx fall in 2012. He just got word he'll be back in Afghan nx summer through fall in 2012. Also will be in Somalia summer 2013. He tells me this stuff is all planned out ahead of time, don't matter who the Pres is. USA has a presence in Somalia (S.F. CIA, Support People, and all that) to handle problems in that part of Africa. Me thinks this Ugandan operation isn't that big of a deal.
I'd like to see them bring all the troops home too, but then the Arabs would shut our oil off and then where would this country be?