Obama Not Seeking Plans For US Troops To Rescue Nigerian Girls -- Stars and Stripes/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration isn’t asking the Pentagon to develop options for a mission to free Nigerian schoolgirls taken hostage by the Boko Haram terrorist group, said two U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
American military personnel are advising and supporting the Nigerians, but the administration isn’t actively considering sending U.S. forces to join in a rescue operation, said a White House official who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the mission publicly.
The situation, like the Syrian civil war and the conflicts in South Sudan and elsewhere, pits humanitarian instincts against hard realities for a U.S. administration wary of foreign entanglements in the wake of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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My Comment: So much for all of the media hype from the White House on this tragedy. As to what is my own personal take on the U.S. military becoming involved in any operation to rescue these girls from Boko Haram .... I say stay out of that hornet's nest. The Nigerian military does not control the ground .... how could a few dozen or a few hundred US special forces do anything different?
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Look up (Raid at Cabanatuan) so it is possible but is it worth it? ...hard to say.
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