US Boots On The Ground In Uganda: Isn't This How Vietnam Got Going?

W. T. F.???

Obama is committing troops to chasing down a war-lord in the interior of Africa. But, don't worry, it's just 100 'advisors', no worries.

President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army in and around Uganda.

"I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield," Obama said in letter sent Friday to House Speaker John Boehner and Daniel Inouye, the president pro tempore of the Senate. Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army.

U.S. military personnel advising regional forces working to target Kony and other senior leaders will not engage Kony's forces "unless necessary for self-defense," Obama said.

"I believe that deploying these U.S. armed forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa."

One hundred troops on the ground in Central Africa requires naval support, air support, signals support, intelligence support, resupply by helicopter, vehicles, medical team, on and on it goes--just to keep the one hundred fed, protected, and able to do some sort of work in pursuance of a mission hundreds of miles from anywhere.

Isn't Uganda a former British colony? Isn't this their bailiwick, since they would know the country, the culture, the terrain, the people much better than a hundred SEALS or Rangers dropped in by chopper?

Where did this nonsense come from? This sort of move has to be planned ahead, which probably means we've had boots on the ground, in secret, for some months now.

Yes, the warlord in question is a brutal, horrible, bad actor. Does this justify us putting troops into Uganda? Saddam Hussein was a small-time Stalin, and OS remembers The Left howling that this did not justify our involvement.

Will the streets now fill with indignant peace marchers over the opening of yet another war by TheWinnerOfTheNobelPeacePrize?

Anyone got an answer?

(Sound of crickets chirping...)