US African Commander Gen. Thomas Waldhauser today confirmed that he is still seeking increased authority to carry out attacks in Somalia, seeking President Trump’s permission for more “flexibility” in carrying out airstrikes and using ground troops in the country.
It was reported last month that the Pentagon was looking to expand involvement in Somalia, though Waldhauser today confirmed that the White House has not granted them the permission that they were seeking, leaving unclear what the holdup is, as the Trump Administration is sending more and more forces across Africa.
According to Waldhauser, the changes would not just open up an increase in operations in Somalia, but also allow the pentagon to provide increased direct aid to the Somali National Army, including potentially putting embedded troops in with them in areas close to combat forces.
At the same time, Waldhauser downplayed exactly how much the US would expand its Somalia involvement, insisting that he has no intention of turning the country into a “free fire zone.” Still, it appears direct US involvement is going to be substantially more than it has been.
OK, well assuming lives don’t matter think of the money… plans like this cost money, lots and lots of money.
Somalia has been a bad anarchy for a long time. I’m not sure Trump is the best person to solve that problem, but someone needs to grab the nettle.
I’am very reluctant to send U.S. troops anywhere Over the last twenty years everywhere are troops go our enemies flourish . United States has a very bad habit of bombing the wrong side . Please come home
We have a bad habit of bombing ANY side.
So we have a General that is breaking the Constitution of the United States of America, that document that he swore an oath to protect CASHIER HIM! Politicians not Military men decide WHO to go to war with, who to attack, and that is exactly what the Constitution allows for and for GOOD REASONS!
The real Trump disappointment was Trump’s failure yesterday to strip away health care insurance from another 24 million Americans. Obamacare will at least temporarily continue to cost the super rich a lot of money. It seems the Trump plan was ‘no’ plan.
America is threatening to turn into a socialist workers’ paradise like Canada and that can’t be good for the system!
Of course Ryan and his mates have not yet told us that all the “reps of the people” are also giving up their generous government-provided care in solidarity with us all.
So we want to expand involvement in Somalia, keep troops in Iraq forever and keep troops in Libya for who knows how long. A wonderful day for the anti-war crowd. Thank you Donald for being against nation building and against intervening everywhere.
I remember “W” in 2006 managed to infuriate the SecGen of the UN with his interference, removing the only govt which had been able to succeed in keeping the country in some sort of reasonable condition. Now that 117000 of the many Somali refugees have reached Yemen ( imagine that being a refuge!!) and the US is killing some of them as well, we could not let Somalia survive.
We could never allow that, could we, when we have such wonderful destructive forces.
So Waldhauser thinks he can cure the famine in Somalia – along with its other problems, with little bit of humanitarian high explosive and some military action? Let’s see what the Chinese are going to do.
The Chinese are going to Get bombed.
Yemen… Why would we want to get involved in the mess our good friends the Saudis have made of things there. You remember these guys. The ones that financed that day of terror when two thousand maybe three thousand
|yyyy|yy|yyyyyy died. Not only did these guys provide financing, their citizen’s were the pilots of the planes that wrought the terror and destruction. ? I upcoming g9 in u oh c oh xifu
As Soros said, he’s in the business of making $$$ and doesn’t care about the social consequences. I believe this is over the direction of an oil pipeline. Shows the level of monsters that are ruling the world today! Poor Yemen.
Is there ANY country the warmongers don’t want to attack, invade, destroy, and pay to rebuild? Will there be anyone of any ethnic heritage left in the US that doesn’t want to do the US and its citizens harm once these death merchants are through?
Obviously, the lessons of how endless wars brought down the old Roman Empire don’t phase our generals and leaders one bit.
It’s how they get promoted
The real truth is that Obama tried to bring to Americans, everything they wanted. And the truth is that a good sized faction of Americans voted for Trump because he was promising so many ideas that he took from Obama’s playbook. Trump opposed the Republican gameplan and was largely hated for it by Republicans.
The only problem is, Trump lied about everything he promised and he never did have any intention of delivering.
The greatest example of that is staring Americans in the face today with the failure of Trump’s health care plan. He promised Americans to give them all affordable health care and that was really exactly what Obama ‘tried’ to do. Now they see that his plan would take health care away from an additional 24,000,000 Americans and it failed because it didn’t take away enough.
A white version of Obama is now on the agenda for what America needs. It can’t get any clearer than that! Only partisan politics of the Republican right will keep people from accepting the real truths.
And we wonder why they come here and hate on America! This is a corporate greed war and US is exercising the “formula”. Send in advisors, followed by air, followed by ground troops…UNTIL A NEW REGIME HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED! Translation:Promoting US/Western corporate interest!
We’ve done this over and over and over again…not good!
We love to kill…
*Between 1898 and 1934 the Marines invaded: Cuba 4 times; Nicaragua 5 times; Honduras 7 times; the Dominican Republic 4 times; Haiti twice; Guatemala once; Panama twice; Mexico 3 times; and Colombia 4 times. All done for the corporations to get natural resorces and farm land for them.
*Eisenhower murdered over one million innocent Germans in open field prison camps, AFTER the war’s end.
*President Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki murdering over 100,000 innocent people inspite of Japan’s desire to surrender.
*Johnson, Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover were at Clint Murcheson’s ranch finalizing JFK’s murder the night before.
*George Bush allowed 9/11 to occur then murdered a million Iraqi innocents.
*Obama dropped over 26 thousand bombs in 2016 on innocents plus allowed the drone murder of wedding parties.
Did you think that all up joe?
Or did you get it from some creepy conspiracy theory site?
http://investmentwatchblog.com/trump-is-right-obama-killed-far-more-people-than-putin/
Simple history Don. Can get to links on this computer as it has a content blocker. What is it about?
I turned off the blocker to see what you linked. You linked a previous post where I posted the statistics?? So what’s with that? Limited to only one posting of historical facts? It is from two months ago, you stalking me?