Speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, Pentagon officials insisted that the Uganda war won’t be “an open-ended commitment” and that military officials envision it lasting for “several months.”
President Obama announced the invasion of northern Uganda a week and a half ago, sending 100 combat troops to the nation to fight the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) both in Uganda and in neighboring countries.
Pentagon and State Department officials refused to promise the committee that the troops would not engage in combat, despite claims to that effect previously. They insisted that the troops will be sent “into the field” and that this might mean they have to get into gunbattles to “defend themselves.”
The promise that the war won’t be open-ended came a bit earlier in this war than it did in say Afghanistan, but the “plan” for the war to last months and not years doesn’t seem to be anything resembling a commitment not to keep escalating the war in the months and years to come.
You just knew that when they created "Africa command" a while back, that those boys would find a way to stick their noses into Africa. Got to find a way to keep that budget money coming….
Did the Pentarchy provide a timetable, a tentative pullout date for these armed mercenary "advisers"? No? Hence it is an open ended commitment.
If I were still in uniform I'd resent being sent to Uganda as bait for a real or imagined Tonkin Incident. Any soldier who dies in Uganda will be lauded as a 'hero' by the Empire, no doubt, but the truth of the matter is those responsible for this upcoming debacle know our troops are there for that specific purpose- to die and provide Our Dear Leader with a convenient excuse to pour more blood and national treasure into yet another politically motivated 'liberation'.
Aaaaaaaaaah, ain't that nice of them? So very democratic and fair.
That;s what they said about Germany and Japan too.
Won't be open ended, eh? Next you'll hear calls for "completing the mission" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) and for "supporting the troops" once a number of them get whacked. As soon as night follows day you'll hear the usual chorus of imperial harpies calling for us to respect the sacrifices made by these robots and to chase the killers from here to Kathmandu.