Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African 'army' leader

[Churchill]

Yeah, any time you can go to Africa generally means you get to wreck shit. These types of decisions shouldn't and don't come from a soldiers point of view though.

The Constitution portion of my post was in reference to Congress maintaining the power to declare war/writs/etc and forge alliances and treaties. I'm not saying I have any faith in Congress to make a right decision, but that it is their responsibility to, not the President's or the CIA's or the DoD's. 100 men is a "small" number, but 100 men + logistics + support + support stateside becomes a larger number in personnel and cost. This act is exercising foreign policy through violence which is war and it should be declared as such. There are a number of reasons it isn't, the main one likely being that saying "I'm going to war with you" won't win you any votes or additional Nobel Peace prizes but it's still what this is.

I would still say there's something else at play, it doesn't have to be oil but it likely could be. It could be as simple as this guy has ties to some dude in Libya and we're going to take out his organization to get at the other guy. Oh, he's a shithead and commits genocide and rape and the like? Do a press release, this might make us look good.

[archibaldcrane]

Along that same vein, I really don't see how you can be in support of this because he's a bad guy and not be in support of whatever has gone on in Afghanistan and Iraq. Both Sadaam Hussein and Mullah Mohammad Omar were bad men and lead bad Governments that did bad things to a lot of people.

Joseph Kony and the LRA are not the government of Uganda. Eliminating them does not require a 10-year occupation and rebuilding of a government and infrastructure.

That would be the biggest and most important difference. It's also why "war isn't declared" - we aren't going to war with Uganda, we are trying to help Uganda and their established government with the problem of this Christian terrorist.

[Ezek]

Here, be less mad now; trading 100 troops in Uganda for 40,000 in Iraq.

Spoiler: show

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/am...922744317.html

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan:

http://readersupportednews.org/news-...tan-until-2024

US Troops May Stay in Afghanistan Until 2024

[Churchill]

That retard needs to put his eyepro on

[Dantrag]

Man we need to get out of Afghanistan ASAP. Shit is bleeding us dry.