CNN reports now 'the girls may be separated' and this might be interesting if it hadn't been known at least a week ago when I first heard it. The previous report was that about fifty of the girls had been taken as 'wives' by the Boko Haram 'troops,' about fifty had escaped and the others were in some unclear situation with threats they would be sold to traffickers. In other words, the girls are all over the place.
There isn't any chance of surprising Boko Haram troops. The best jungle fighters in the U.S. are all at least sixty (i.e. Vietnam Era). The Boko Haram has been doing this for quite a long time and they know the land better than you ever will. And they're expecting you.
If you want to think me a heartless bastard because I think those kids are screwed, that's fine ... but what are you going to tell me when this happens again after some Hollywood stunt rescues these ones. Will you go back. Will you keep doing this indefinitely.
Nothing I've heard is realistic. These Boko Haram killed three hundred people on Monday alone. Ten or eleven U.S. soldiers in unknown country in unfamiliar terrain and probably unable to use the more sophisticated weapons have how much of a chance, in your estimation.
How much cowboy crap does the U.S. have to pull before it realizes that it doesn't fucking work. What's more, it has never worked.
In my view, if you don't stop the killing overall then there's not much point in doing anything. It would take a hell of a lot of resources but possibly blockading the area works with the first objective being to stop the killing. You don't want to be there forever so you need both sides at the table but before that you need to be very damn clear on just what exactly you want to happen. I don't hear any clarity on that from anyone.
There isn't any chance of surprising Boko Haram troops. The best jungle fighters in the U.S. are all at least sixty (i.e. Vietnam Era). The Boko Haram has been doing this for quite a long time and they know the land better than you ever will. And they're expecting you.
If you want to think me a heartless bastard because I think those kids are screwed, that's fine ... but what are you going to tell me when this happens again after some Hollywood stunt rescues these ones. Will you go back. Will you keep doing this indefinitely.
Nothing I've heard is realistic. These Boko Haram killed three hundred people on Monday alone. Ten or eleven U.S. soldiers in unknown country in unfamiliar terrain and probably unable to use the more sophisticated weapons have how much of a chance, in your estimation.
How much cowboy crap does the U.S. have to pull before it realizes that it doesn't fucking work. What's more, it has never worked.
In my view, if you don't stop the killing overall then there's not much point in doing anything. It would take a hell of a lot of resources but possibly blockading the area works with the first objective being to stop the killing. You don't want to be there forever so you need both sides at the table but before that you need to be very damn clear on just what exactly you want to happen. I don't hear any clarity on that from anyone.
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