Sean D. Naylor and Nick Turse, Yahoo News: Libyan war escalates amid lack of U.S strategy for secret missions in Africa
The advance of a rogue militia on Tripoli, the capital city of Libya, has forced the hasty evacuation of U.S. troops from that country, highlighting the lack of a cohesive strategy for ongoing U.S. military operations in Africa and a seeming White House ambivalence about the continent, according to former officials.
For several years, from a handful of outposts in Libya, U.S. special operators have been conducting counterterrorism missions with names like Obsidian Lotus and Odyssey Resolve. These are just two of dozens of named operations that, largely unknown to the American public, have been launched from a string of bases across the northern half of Africa, according to information obtained by Yahoo News via the Freedom of Information Act.
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4 comments:
I would like to remove the US troops in Africa and deploy them along the US southern border. Bring them home.
/unless the Pentagon can persuade me that they're doing much more good there than they would here.
Russ,
Agree wholeheartedly. I couldn't have put this any better myself.
Not only does there appear to be no strategy or American interests that I'm aware of here but based upon prior history I'm concerned the US government along with top military personnel are engaging in mischief here that is going to eventually lead to blowback against us on our homeland. With no oversight and no debate on this even in the best of situations there's no way to be sure and our government doesn't exactly have a history of being forthcoming.
Furthermore in the current situation the oceans that separate us from the major world powers aren't going to be able to protect us from the impact of stupid decisions as they may have been able to in times past. The troops in Africa and most other places in the world should be redeployed to the border.
A debate on such foreign deployments/entanglements that seem to me to sap our strength while undermining our interests needs to happen forthwith. Unfortunately such debates seldom get very far as they typically end up being hijacked by the hysterical anti-Americanism.
The overall African strategy? China is in Africa making friends. The US is making counter moves and as per normal, making enemies.
China has been in Africa since the 1960s. No one has claimed that China's presence created stability in all that time, so why now?
Brennan is that you?
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