The cowards - they're fine with 4 AM squad-force, flash-bang raids on normal, "safe" people who don't know they being targeted or why, and wouldn't resist - but when it comes to a real criminal who might pose a danger, they're happy to let local LEOs take the risks.
The Russian-backed military junta in Niger will release the 1,000 US soldiers trapped at the base in exchange for the keys to the $100 million American airbase in the country.
Give them the keys, get every last one of our people out of there, and then level the airbase. Carpet bomb with B-52s. That's the only sensible thing to do.
As my flight engineer once said as we departed Cubie Pt. for on station, and flying over Olongapo city, “There’s a lot of screwing going on down there”